It took almost 20 years from computers that nobody brought on electronics and photography stores to computers in everybody's desk.
replyRobots will probably be slower, because there is way less room for optimizing their cost.
We have had more than 10 years of robotic vacuums and yet they are still a fairly niche product.
replyrobots have existed for more than 20 years though. Boston Dynamic's dog is 22 years old, Atlas 15-ish
replyWhat can I as a normal person use these robots for?
replyNothing. They were designed for the military.
replyAnd what do the military use them for?
replySupposedly as a sort of extremely expensive but basically tireless mule.
replyMostly just the cost, yeah. It will be like buying a car. The economics will have to make sense for regular people, while it starts popping up in tons of places and become a status symbol.
replyDigital computers existed for ~10-20 years before hitting the consumer market. It took almost a half-century for the microprocessor to become a ubiquitous appliance.
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