For more than 10 years we’ve been building robots. We’ve built robots to talk, robots to roam and robots to work. More than anything, robots are hard. They are generally mobile and struggle to stay connected. Their controls never work as planned, the sensors are buggy and generally nothing works like you’d imagine.

But they are still the future.

A few areas where robots are working really well already:

-Manufacturing
-Recycling
-Lawn mowing
-Restaurants

A few areas where they have a long way to go still:

-Humanoid robots
-Full voice recognition and A.I. driven conversations
-Offline functionality
-Power usage and storage

Watch over the next few years as robots begin to incorporate into our society, but beware of the robot hype. They are not yet ready to take the place of humans!