Back in 2007, Bill Gates wrote a provocative essay entitled A Robot in Every Home, in which he predicted that someday soon, affordable robot assistants—as in cooks, nurses, and lawn mowers—are coming to a middle class home near you.
If this sounds outlandish (or too good to be true), consider that Gates was one of the first to envision the modern ubiquity of “personal” computers—this at a time when the most advanced computers took up entire rooms to provide the computing power of the tip calculator on your iPhone.
