The Robot Renaissance Arrives At CES

Regular readers will recognize that “Robot Renaissance” is also one of my trend predictions from my trend report, but it was hard to avoid singling this out based on the fact that there were so many examples at CES of robots with emerging personalities taking on new roles.

From the Jibo personalized robot (which I wrote about in the book) to a copycat product that made it to the CES show floor, to robots with humanlike features, to Kuri the “robot nanny,” the idea that robots could be more than job replacing assembly line bots was routinely on display, and it has broad implications for how we all work and live.