When Will Consumer Robotics Reach The “iPhone Moment”?
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When Will Consumer Robotics Reach The “iPhone Moment”?

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Recently I attended the west coast premiere of General Magic.  It’s a documentary movie about the rise and fall of a startup building one of the first PDAs in the early 1990′s.  Similar to Apple’s Newton and predating the PalmPilot, General Magic incorporated all of the key ideas of today’s modern smartphone into a single product long before the technologies (for both the device and the networks) were ready to support a great user experience.Unfortunately, General Magic’s product failed - the pr...

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