The day that you all the 【小题1】 (satisfy) of having all the housework 【小题2】 (do) by a robot might still be a few decades off. But increasingly engineers are saying that 【小题3】 (robot) are going to make the leap from the factory floor to your family room.

Bill Gates once predicted the “Dawn of the Age of Robots”. What’s behind this new era? It’s 【小题4】 (part) a matter of technology. Devices that can recognize and respond to a human voice have been developed. There are now a few different ways for robots 【小题5】 (move) around. They can walk, crawl or ride on wheels. They are being made smaller these days and also becoming 【小题6】 (efficient).

A bigger part of the story depends 【小题7】 the consumers. People around the world have tirelessly searched for ways to get lazier since the 1950s 【小题8】 the television remote control was invented. Also considering the increasing wealth of people, engineers believe the opportunity 【小题9】 (appear) ripe to introduce robots to ease our daily lives. Robots will do most of the basic housework 【小题10】 just help you have more fun on the basketball court.