HUMANOID ROBOTICS: Anticipating a Technological Revolution

Humanoid robots are leaving the laboratories. They are becoming faster, more agile, more capable, and increasingly connected to the most advanced artificial intelligence systems.They walk, run, manipulate objects, work in factories, assist people, learn new tasks, and begin to act in environments designed for humans. But behind these advances lie much deeper questions.How does a humanoid robot actually work? Why give a machine two legs and two arms when wheels or specialized systems are often more efficient? Which jobs may be transformed, and which could disappear? Who will own these new means of production? What happens to responsibility, safety, privacy, sovereignty, and power when artificial intelligence gains a body capable of acting in the physical world?From the history of automata and science fiction to today's industrial humanoids, from healthcare and domestic assistance to military systems, labor economics, public safety, and technological sovereignty, HUMANOID ROBOTICS examines the humanoid revolution from every angle.A major part of the book is also devoted to space exploration. The Moon, Mars, autonomous construction, maintenance, local resources, habitats, teleoperation, robotic precursor missions, and the infrastructure required for long-term human settlement are examined as possible stages of humanity's expansion beyond Earth.Drawing on several hundred scientific, institutional, and industrial sources, this book separates established capabilities from promises, production from prototypes, measured results from marketing claims, and documented facts from forward-looking scenarios.The objective is neither to promise a robotic paradise nor to predict inevitable catastrophe. It is to understand what these machines are becoming, what they may genuinely change, and which industrial, social, political, military, and strategic choices must be made before humanoid robots become ordinary.And one question ultimately stands above all the others.What could happen if artificial general intelligence one day gained hands, legs, and the ability to act in our world?Would it become a partner, a competitor, or, under certain conditions, an adversary?