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Last Sunday in Palm Springs, California, Jeffrey P Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, climbed into the cockpit of a 13-foot robot and began flailing his arms as though warming up for a workout, causing the robot’s enormous appendages to mimic his movements.

“Why do I feel so much like Sigourney Weaver?” Bezos said, referring to the actress who wore a mechanical suit in a climactic battle in the 1986 movie “Aliens.”

The intimate audience of entrepreneurs and academics, attending an Amazon conference on robotics and artificial intelligence, chuckled. Later, Bezos posted a photo on Twitter of himself in the