4 things 'WALL-E' got right about our tech-obsessed future

Nissan's ProPilot self-driving chair brings more to mind than just a novel way to wait in line. The plot follows a waste-management robot tasked with cleaning up Earth nearly 700 years in the future. On a spaceship far away, humans have devolved into helpless creatures ferried around on floating chairs while small armies of service robots attend to their every need. SEE ALSO: Nissan's self-driving chairs are the future of waiting in line What else did WALL-E get right about our increasingly robotic world? Though not nearly as cute as the movie's titular hero, the recycling robots at ZenRobotics can sort all kinds of waste.