The Robot Economy Will Run on Blockchain - Issue 65: In Plain Sight

Our future will be bright, fast--and full of robots. It'll be more Asimov than Terminator: servant robots, more or less similar to us. Some will be upright androids, but most will be boxes filled with computer chips running software agents. And there will be a lot of them. Forecasts predict that, within just three years, we'll have 1.7 million robots in industry, 32 million in our households, and 400,000 in professional offices.1 Robots will begin to run our factories.