[pixl97]

Further, yes. How much I can't say. Watching how quickly robots are evolving right now is quite something. Every day something pretty cheap is coming out that would have taken millions of dollars and a massive lab full of scientists to create.

Bi-pedal robots, drones, sensing capabilities, interpretive capabilities, all this is proceeding at a never before seen rate.

[i_think_so]

For several years now I've been pointing out to non-techies that Boston Dynamics built a robot that can do a backflip and is better at industrial environment parkour than you or I....

...and the first version of that robot came out in the previous decade.

When I saw one doing a perfectly creditable spinning hook kick not long ago I had a vision of our future, and it was just me re-watching The Animatrix.