Remember when “robots” meant a clunky metal box from a 1950s sci-fi movie that blinked, beeped, and occasionally tried to vaporize the hero? Or maybe your current idea of a robot is that little hockey-puck vacuum that constantly gets stuck under the sofa and cries for help until you rescue it. If that sounds familiar, you are not alone. Most of us grew up assuming robots would either take over the world or, at the…