Newsweek article on how robots are starting to appear in the real world:
Over the past few years, robots have infiltrated our ranks, robots that look nothing like the luminescent-eyed androids of science-fiction lore. They can t emulate the human brain s boundless flexibility, but they do take advantage of the latest innovations in computing power, sensors and artificial intelligences, and can do one or two things well. Today robots work in homes, hospitals and in dirty, dangerous environments like tunnels under New York City streets. Perhaps most significantly, they populate military bases around the world, where the next generation of unmanned aerial and ground vehicles are currently being battle-tested. In an industry that has risen and collapsed several times since the early 80s, there is at last optimism that the Age of Robots might finally have arrived.
