Mossberg Final Column: The Disappearing Computer
From the article: "and robotics are in their infancy, a niche, with too few practical uses as yet."<p>Why does it seem like robotics is always niche and not practical yet? It seems like robotics is perennially on the cusp of being the next big thing, but never really is.<p>(I'd qualify that robotics are the old big thing in industrial manufacturing, though.)