Personal robotics are eternally on the brink of being ‘the next big thing’ — and eternally out of reach of reality, too.
Ever since the ‘Space Race’ era of 1950s technological optimism, sci-fi fans (if not every imaginative child that’s ever lived) have dreamed of having their own personal robot around the house, whether that’s to go on some big adventure with, or more prosaically to help with the chores.
