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Actually, a number of kinds of robots do exist. Industrial robots exist in manufacturing. The kind we have seen in Science Fiction movies, like C3PO in Star Wars, which look like metallic people and have human as well as super-human capabilities are called humanoid robots. The Honda ASIMO is probably the most popular humanoid robot at this point. As far as the lack of humanoid robots throughout society, the simple answer is, the technology is still being developed. It takes a lot of research to build something like that.


One of the biggest roadblocks to having one of these humanoid robots walking around or in your home is probably the lack of marketability because they aren't smart enough yet. In order for a humanoid robot to do a variety of tasks, and do them like humans do, it must have a very advanced Artificial Intelligence.


That said, the development of a really good humanoid robot is the product of artificial intelligence, so we should probably be asking the question, "How good is artificial intelligence, and why isn't it better yet?"


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