Two competing visions for the future of robots are taking shape in Silicon Valley hardware giants, university research labs, and, of course, Nvidia. One is the stuff of science fiction: humanoid robots (also known in science fiction as Gynoids, fembots, Stepford wives, droids, replicants, synthetics, Cylons, Autons, hosts, hubots, fabricants, bioroids, boomers, persocons, reploids, artificial










