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Robots aren’t as far in the future as many people think, especially ones that can be put to work in the skilled trades and “hard industries.” And we’re going to need them because of the existing and expanding shortage of skilled (human) labor in those industries, and given the fact of rising demand for all the things produced by “hard industries” whether basic materials, from metals to grains, or advanced products, from cars to computers.
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Interesting podcast.
Any thoughts on teleoperation of robots? The video game generation may be well suited to operating machinery on the moon or bottom of the seas.