RoboPilot

Not sure what to make of this. At least it doesn't drink.

Robotics research is already moving at a breakneck pace and is accelerating every day. I had no doubt it would happen, but it's a little bizarre to watch something occurring which was found only in far-fetched science fiction stories when I was a kid. At this rate, we'll have the household equivalent of C3PO in a couple of decades -- hopefully without the annoying English butler mannerisms. If that sounds improbable, it is worth remembering that prior to 1980, less than one percent of American households owned personal computers and even fewer had mobile phones.