Question: how long does it take to make a life sized robot

Alan Winfield answered on 24 Mar 2011:

Actually it wouldn’t take too long if it only has to be life sized – perhaps a few days in the workshop. The problem is that if it has to be able to move – then it would take very much longer – perhaps a year to make a human life sized robot that could move even a bit like a human. But the really hard thing would be making a human life-sized robot that behaved like a human, in other words with human-like artificial intelligence – that would take several 100 years I think. A long time! 🙂