Robotics in the news media

It's amazing how popular Robotics as become a regular topic in mainstream media. It is no longer science fiction. Autonomous cars are roaming the streets in SF and nobody bats an eye. Humanoid robots startups are floating like flies.

I start my undergrad in 2008 and people were referencing the DARPA Challenge 2004 as the state of the art.

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AI in translation

Sense plan acts History of Robots rising Current state of the art and the current number of Robotics companies in the US