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I believe humanoid robots will become a big part of our lives. But I agree with Agility Robotics' co-founder that it'll take time before we're comfortable having them in our homes.
That's why Agility's approach makes a lot of sense to me. I think they're doing a great job of getting this movement started: putting robots to work safely alongside people in factories. Let people see what they can do, build trust in them and expand from there.
Agility Robotics Chief Robot Officer Jonathan Hurst:
"And over time, over years, it's going to be item picking to fill the bins, picking them up and going around and starting to do cardboard. Eventually, you'll start to see them in a grocery store or a Walmart, and then at construction sites, hospitals and hotels.
I think it'll probably be 20 years before we start to see these robots in our homes. But by that time, they're going to be pretty familiar. We'll already understand how safe they are, what we can do with them, and what's okay and what isn't.
But today, we're taking those first steps. The first steps to having an actually safe robot that's no longer behind a physical barrier, that can operate in human spaces and human environments, in close proximity to humans, and start to do some of the dull, dirty, dangerous tasks that we still have people doing."