Two competing visions for the future of robots are taking shape in Silicon Valley hardware giants, university research labs, and, of course, Nvidia.
One is the stuff of science fiction: humanoid robots (also known in science fiction as Gynoids, fembots, Stepford wives, droids, replicants, synthetics, Cylons, Autons, hosts, hubots, fabricants, bioroids, boomers, persocons, reploids, artificial persons, skinjobs, clankers, and toasters).
The idea is to use advanced technology and AI to simulate a person, in all its primate physiology and awkwardness of gait. Once we have the fake persons, its creators can feel like gods and their owners can feel like, what, slave owners?
