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Robots on the rise

Technical manuals and popular fiction helped thrust robots into the popular imagination in the late 1970s, cast in the twin archetypes of mechanical monsters or tin sidekicks.

But for technical, financial and other reasons, the grand promise – or grave threat – of the rise of robots never came to pass. (We’re still waiting on our jetpacks, too.)

Several decades later, Ryan Calo, a legal privacy expert at Stanford, believes we’re finally on the precipice of a genuine robot revolution. He expects it will transform our everyday lives as much as the PC and Internet did.

James Temple, Chronicle Columnist

Full Story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/13/BUTT1KMQ0L.DTL

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