“In 2035, sleek humanoid robots that walk, talk and think will
be as common as iPods.“At least they are in ‘I, Robot.’ When the big-budget thriller
hits movie screens Friday, it will be hard not to notice the gap
between the clunky robots of today and those doing battle with Will
Smith’s Detective Del Spooner…“Called Centibots, these small, red robots on wheels were
developed by SRI using off-the-shelf computer parts and the Linux
operating system…”