After smart phone and tablets, is robot the next wave!

The applications of electronics started with telephony and analog radio broadcasting and now the most popular mass electronic device in the market is smart phone. What else can be the next big consumer-device/gadget electronics can power? Its mostly the robot, you can even call it a personnel e-assistant, may be iBot or iRobot. There is already a company named iRobot , which is making cleaning robots. People hate to clean the floors every morning, this activity going to be taken over by robots more and more in the coming years. Cleaning is just one example, there are plenty of activities at home and office where we human beings can effectively use robots. With the voice command enabled robots, robots can accomplish tasks by hearing to our commands. With the mobile phone becoming remote control, the future robots are going to be tied up with mobile phone applications to remotely monitor and control robots. Just like the mobile phones, easy to handle robots available at affordable prices going to provide good (ROI) Return on Investment for the buyer. Irrespective of person's financial status, people going to buy robots, provided they really save time and money for its user by taking over some boring and risky tasks.
Roomba from iRobot vacuum-cleans your house. Security people...