Long an important component of industrial automation, robots are now appearing in people's workaday lives. In the process, they are being transformed from the roughly humanoid, such as this NTU guide robot (right), to the very human, such as Honda's ASIMO (left).
一向是自動化工廠好幫手的機器人，將逐漸融入人類生活中，而機器人的外形也將從粗具人形（如封面右圖台大的導覽機器人），變得「人模人樣」（如左圖日本本田汽車研發的艾西莫）。