The impact of advanced robotic engineering (part 2) - Netopia

The vast majority of machines is of highly anonymous nature and, like background music, has crept into our lives almost without anybody noticing. They include refrigerators, sensors, automatic cameras, servers, mainframe computers and Turing machines. To a certain very rudimentary degree, they are already linked although most only among the same kind. It is a preliminary phase of the Internet of Things. Our day-to-day link with them passes through the smart phones.