Will You Even Notice The Impending Robot Uprising?

An anonymous reader writes: We tend to take things like household appliances and other automation for granted, but as O'Reilly's Mike Loukides puts it "The Future Is All Robots. But Will We Even Notice? We've watched the rising interest in robotics for the past few years. It may have started with the birth of FIRST Robotics competitions, continued with the iRobot and the Roomba, and more recently with Google's driverless cars. But in the last few weeks, there has been a big change. Suddenly, everybody’s talking about robots and robotics."