I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

A digital totality would not be complete without also having a physical dimension - robots. While the public perception of robots seems to split between bloodthirsty killing robots and a robot servant at home, the actual robot landscape is far more interesting. This talk outlines the obstacles on these paths to robot-based digital totalities by pointing towards state-of-the-art research or industrial practice. And it does this with the use of a few SMBC strips and one XKCD quote.