100 Years of Robots: How Technology – And Our Lives – Have Changed – 24/7 Wall St.

We live in a world where robots and robotic technology have become part of our everyday lives. While films such as "Metropolis" and television series like "The Twilight Zone" warned of a world in which our mechanical creations would enslave us, many of us could not envision a day without virtual personal assistants like Siri or the floor-cleaning robotic vacuum Roomba.