By Futurist Thomas Frey
When people imagine humanoid robots in 2040, they picture the obvious: household helpers doing laundry, eldercare companions, manufacturing workers, retail associates. These are inevitable.
But I’m far more interested in the applications nobody’s talking about yet—the weird, unexpected, psychologically complex uses that will emerge once the technology becomes cheap and capable enough for creative experimentation. Here are eight applications that sound bizarre now but will seem obvious in retrospect.
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