I will eventually blog in detail about this, coming from doing AI work and having a child I think it puts a new perspective into the subject that you would not be able to really understand until you go through the phases of that part of life. You also need the convergence of alot of smaller parts, computation, neuroscience, physics, and some psychology to reach these points. I still think the robotics part is only nearly 25% of the entire puzzle, but what some the pioneers in the field are starting to realize and have the ability to do in the next 10 years will be pretty amazing.