The Future is Now: Vacuuming Robots & Smart Air-Conditioning - Chad Jenkins

Boyd feels ripped off by the future. When he was a child, he was flying cars and promised robots to do household chores. But National Geographic Emerging Explorer and roboticist Chad Jenkins explains that machines are more helpful than we may realize. From self-regulating air conditioning and heating to robots that move around the house and vacuum, robots are smarter than they ever have been. But Jenkins is working toward a future in which humans will be able to teach robots tasks to repeat. He says that since robots don't have free will, we only need to fear the humans programming the machines that can help us avoid a future predicted by another National Geographic explorer: the Judgment Day depicted in James Cameron's The Terminator.