The Humanoid Age: When Robots Walk Among Us considers the near future in which robotic humanoids and superintelligent computers have become integral to human existence. In a world where machines learn to walk, talk, feel emotions, and mimic humans to a very high degree, society will face crucial issues of jobs, privacy, ethical dilemmas, and humanity itself. The purpose of this book is to get beneath the hype to consider how much of this future is coming our way and how we need to prepare for it now.