Robot butlers and maids can be far more useful in the home than your average Roomba. And now MIT has a project in hand to develop printable robots, hinting that home bots are en route sooner than you may think. Before they get here for real, let’s take a look back–from C-3P0 to Serge–at science fiction’s array of custom-made butler bots. Commence dreaming about what your own robo-butler will do for you.
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