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Robotics evangelist: ‘Personal robots’ should be invisible beings | The Register


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22 May 2014



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Personal robots are fast approaching reality, says one robotics evangelist – but not as the humanoid servants so often portrayed in futuristic fantasies.

“Robots are the new black,” said Andra Keay, managing director of Silicon Valley Robotics, speaking at the O’Reilly Solid conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.

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