There is no doubt that in the future so many of the jobs we humans do which are tedious, unpleasant or extremely dangerous will in fact be done by robotic assistants. Already we see funding for robotic assistant projects for the military, which can walk a soldier or military hardware technician through an procedure, as a talking interactive manual.

We all know that in technology advances that military and entertainment are two big forces of funding the future. Eventually these robotic artificial intelligent units will be able to become our best friends, assistants and even help us with dangerous jobs like secret covert spies for the CIA;

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There is a lot of funding taking place and nearly unlimited potential applications for such things. The science of building androids is serious business as it spans everything from haptics (feeling and touch sensors) to artificial intelligence design and programming. I also believe there is a lot of very good work being done in video games and VR.

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If you have such thoughts you may find yourself in a lucrative career as a robotic designer, artificial intelligent programmer or even a computer human interface behavioral specialist. Or you might win the biggest artificial intelligent android competition in the world at www.RoboPrize.com. It is totally up to you, so consider this in 2006.