Why don’t we have robots taking care of our every need by now? A little history of the field of robotics might help you understand how hard it is to get machines to perform tasks, and how far we’ve come in just a few decades.
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http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/robots.html
http://www.ifr.org/history/
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