Brain Waves
I walked into the glass and steel tower of US Automata and was greeted by one of their top-of-the-line models, an A-28 Assistant. The humanoid robot stood at 5'8", a height the market research team determined was more non-threatening than the earlier Assistant models that had towered over even my 6'2" by more than half a foot. It was a bare gray skeletal frame except for the battery unit that formed it's broad and flat chest, and the head that held the processing power and looked now at...