McKinsey March 22, 2024
The next robot revolution is here, and this one might transform the global economy.
Humanoid robots have been a science fiction staple for more than a century. Indeed, robots owe their name to Czech writer Karel Čapek, who introduced the term in his 1920 play Rossum’s Universal Robots. Čapek’s robots were synthetic humans, not machines, and he derived the term from a Czech word for serf or servant.
Most of today’s robots don’t look, act, or think much like people. Programmable robots have been used in industrial applications since the 1950s and an...
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