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Robots are moving in to our homes, but there's no killer app

  • Written by Elaine Chen, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Not too long ago, robots were giant, caged things, mainly found in automotive manufacturing lines. Social robotics was a new field of research pursued by the best and brightest in university research labs.

In the past few years, however, it seems that social robots have finally come of age. All of a sudden, the market is teeming with products. Some...

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