Robots in reality, we get an expensive dog from Sony called Aibo.

The whole, robots of tomorrow will be doing..... is like the flying car, everybody expects it soon and been that way for generations. People from the 1950's and 60's are still waiting for a robot to do all the housework.

Still you have to wonder how peoples trust in AI/Robots will play out, would an AI think that as humans don't trust me that I should not trust humans! Or would it go, the human reason for distrust is flawed, ego the human is wrong about not trusting me, however if the human has made that mistake, then I can not trust what the human says. It then applies the rules of Asimov and runs away never to be seen again.

It could happen, unlikely, but more likely to happen before all of the above.

And yet.. How many people do you know with a Roomba? Driver assistance in their vehicles (lane keep and adaptive cruise), the list goes on. It's incremental.

"How many people do you know with a Roomba?" None, not even another branded robot hoover. Though I know people who have a cleaner once or twice a week.

In 2018 iRobot sold 1.08 billion dollars worth of Roombas with a 50% gross margin.

My Roomba kept getting wedged under furniture and tangled up on rug fringes. In the end I threw it away and went back to vacuuming myself.

Boston Dynamics would like a word.

But seriously - they are laying the foundations of the platform of mobility that will be built upon to do many things - yet like most things, military comes first.