A while back we discussed robot furniture. Now a restaurant in San Francisco is trying to build and run a restaurant run entirely by robots. Now granted, these are not robots like in Asimov's Robot Series. Instead of humanoid-style robots, these are highly specialized, single-purpose machines.
I can foresee a future populated by many, many robots, in which we didn't notice that we were surrounded by them — we were looking for Rosie the Robot and instead got inconspicuous robots that act as automated furniture and interactive surroundings.
What do my fellow Soylenters think? Are we on the verge of a "Robot Revolution" — even if it doesn't look like how 50s sci-fi imagined it would?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by patrick on Friday September 04 2015, @09:02AM
I can foresee a future populated by many, many robots, in which we didn't notice that we were surrounded by them...
You're "foreseeing" present day. [youtube.com]
We're not 'on the verge of a "Robot Revolution"', we're already knee-deep in it. The more apt questions are the ones CGP Grey poses in that video.