[abhinavkulkarni]

Robotics. Not humanoids necessarily (I find them creepy to tell you the truth), but the ones that will act in the background making mundane and repetitive tasks easier - garbage collection, cleaning, watering plants, restocking grocery store aisles, further automating industrial tasks, etc.

[wwkeyboard]

Anyone interested in the psychology of why nearly-but-not-quite humanoid machines are creepy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley is a good place to start reading.