This also means that considerable computing power was now available for the compact, onboard computers of robots. The use of a powerful mainframe computer along with smaller onboard computers for mobile and nonmobile robots could serve in automated habitats, eg building complexes like the Trade and Convention Centre in Vancouver or villages like False Creek Model Village in Vancouver. Optical fibers are thin, flexible strands of clear glass or plastic that can serve as a transmission medium capable of carrying up to several gigabits of information per second over short or long distances. In optical fibers the electric pulses are converted to light pulses and back to electric again. The human brain has a very limited ability to do more than one thing at one time.
Humans can walk and chew gum at the same time but otherwise juggling ability is restricted.
But even with electronic circuit switching times a million times faster than neurons, artificial neural models face severe size constraints. Parallel processing is however, now a standard feature of modern computers. Whatever the technological methods used, full human equivalency of the robot ANS is not far away. That is with the available technology as we know it today. If we are concerned with human equivalency only as it applies to work, to the ability to provide practical goods and services as required to maintain the modern lifestyle of typical North Americans then my expectation is that we have sufficient capability in the current generation of computers.