Via NBC News.com:
Mechanized workers in the office are slowly making their way from the pages of science fiction — not to mention the isolated industrial cages where they have labored in real life for decades — and working side-by-side with humans. Self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles (aka “drones”), multi-limbed automatons that complete complex tasks and remotely-operated Beam “telepresence” vehicles are increasingly visible in our day-to-day lives.
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The next frontier will be supplying the machines with personalities to ease the collaboration.