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Will humanoid robots will take off. My answer is yes….after 2030. Why do I say this? It just seems to be a trend that IT technologies percolate in one decade before “taking off” in the next.

1947-Transistor is invented, appears in computers in the 50s.

1958-Integrated circuit invented, becomes common in the 60s.

1970s-Microcomputer invent, takes off in the 80s.

1990s, WWW arrives, really takes off in the 2000s.

2007-First iPhone released, smartphones become ubiquitous in the 2010s.

I suspect we will have to wait till 2035 before humanoid machines are commonplace. Right on time for i, Robot.

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That's a fair assessment. I'd add two more points.

First, humanoid robots have not yet had the chance to prove their value.

Second, the technologies you mentioned started to take off when more people had access to them—when they could experiment, hack things together, see how they worked, learn to use them, and eventually solve problems with them. This is another area where humanoid robots are currently lacking.

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