From assembly lines, to highways, to surgery rooms, automation and artificial intelligence are  taking over our modern world. But are the robots really ready to run the show? 

In this edition of In Depth, we take on new research that examines the future of both automated driving as well as automated translation to get a better on handle on where these new technologies are leading us. In both cases our guests tell us, there's some pitfalls we're going to want to work out along the way. 

Host: KCBS Radio Reporter Keith Menconi 

Guests: 

• Adam Millard-Ball, an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research suggests that when self-driving cars arrive, they could turn our public streets into gridlocked nightmares. 
• Dr. Elaine Khoong, a primary care research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. She tells us about her recent study on the surprising effectiveness of Google Translate as a tool to communicate medical advice.