Mind Oxford Univ. This optimism may seem facile, but Moravec, a founder of the Robotics Program at Carnegie Mellon University, marshals plenty of support for his audacious thesis.
Robots are currently in use for security guard duty and delivering meals in hospitals.
While problems with cost and reliability persist, Moravec argues that future advances will overcome these liabilities. At that point, we will be on the verge of a science-fictional utopia, a long and graceful era of retirement for the human race before the machines replace us entirely. All rights reserved.