Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 66 of 68
Robotics failed its 1950s predictions
“In stark contrast to the largely unanticipated explosion of computers into the mainstream, the entire endeavour of robotics has failed rather completely to live up to the predictions of the 1950s." Hans Moravec Most people know what robots are and could perhaps even name a famous one. But other than industrial robots which are widespread in, for example, the car construction industry, robots are rarely seen outside research laboratories. Useful robots have failed to materialize.