Robotic revolution: Humanity just 10 years away from AI surgeons, predicts expert

Nor is there any guarantee that robots would end resembling human beings, with two arms, a leg and a head.

Mr Ramamoorthy said: “It is possible. There are already some such robots out there. For instance, Boston Dynamics have just released a commercial version of “Spot” – it is not human like, but it is certainly very nimble like our four-legged animal friends.

“The engineer in me says that mimicking the human body for its own sake is likely unnecessary. Instead, we should think about what that body enables, and how we can borrow the essential principles.

“For instance, we may decide that we want the agility of a mountain goat – and build something like Spot to mimic that. Or we may decide we want the lightness of touch that our hand exhibits, and we could copy that without the baggage of the rest of our body.”

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