Little Asimo didn’t look like the other children (Image: Sinopix/Rex Features) In search of a killer app (Image: Aldebaran Robotics)
TED LARSON walks to the front of the crowded room and lays an ordinary-looking smartphone, encased in a black plastic cradle, flat on the table.
It’s show-and-tell at the Homebrew Robotics Club (HBRC), the informal nerve centre of Silicon Valley’s robotics community and the heart of a technological revolution that is about to haul robots out of the lab and into our lives.
Larson strokes a finger across the phone’s touchscreen and an animated face appears. One end of the…
