I used to work in a robotic lab. It’s kind of amazing to me that someone would let a… maybe… 80 lb robot run around in a store without a kill switch.

On a side note, it’s kind of amazing how far physical robotics has come in just that small amount of time. Although, it seems like from a operational standpoint, there hasn’t really been a paradigm shift, in terms of spatial awareness.

This is just simple inverse kinematics, with the most impressive thing being the auto-balancing and micro adjustments to a shifting center’s gravity. Impressive, yes. But, it is a technology that’s existed for a pretty long time, just not in consumer electronics.

Still, I feel like the idea of a full on android is closer than I believed previously. The hardware is pretty much there. If we really do see an exponential acceleration in software development, then I suppose it is inevitable.