By Futurist Thomas Frey
Walk into a robot store fifteen years from now, and you’ll face a bewildering choice: the left side of the showroom displays sleek humanoid robots standing at attention like a row of butlers awaiting employment. The right side showcases an array of specialized machines—some with multiple arms, others on wheels or tracks, a few that look more like articulated snakes than anything human.
But the real decision isn’t about form factor. It’s about intelligence. And that’s where the price tags get interesting.
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