Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination ru

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it – often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes. – Daniel H. Wilson

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