ROBOTICS, THE LAST DECADE AND THE NEXT DECADE

This paper is largely a gauntlet thrown before more likely contributors to Kybernetes. An effort is made first to summarize what is commercially available in an industrial robot and then to conjecture on what could reasonably be expected as the fruits of research and development in the decade ahead. By 1984, robots will have shrugged off the demeaning adjective “industrial,” if during the next decade avant‐garde roboticists warm to the tasks defined.