In the visual story "Are the robots finally coming?", Financial Times authors explore how the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and other companies are making huge strides in the field of robotics. 

Russ Tedrake, vice president of robotics research at TRI, is quoted as saying, “The floodgates have really opened. The tech giants are jumping in, the start-ups are just springing up . . . everybody’s optimistic that it’s coming.”