Robots will soon be everywhere.
—Hanson Robotics webpage (www.hansonrobotics.com)
Chapter Overview
A robot revolution is coming sooner than many of us think. This revolution will take place over the next two decades, when companies will deploy enormous numbers of human-interactive robots in a wide variety of consumer-facing roles. Robots will assume roles such as delivering room service in hotels, providing security in malls, assisting shoppers in stores, helping care for patients in hospitals, serving as sex workers, among thousands of other uses. Robots will also be sold to consumers to work in their homes as maids, gardeners, playmates for children, and companions for older adults. The very beginnings ...
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