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robots have existed for more than 20 years though. Boston Dynamic's dog is 22 years old, Atlas 15-ish

What can I as a normal person use these robots for?

Nothing. They were designed for the military.

And what do the military use them for?

Supposedly as a sort of extremely expensive but basically tireless mule.

Computers also existed for more than 20 years before they started being sold to end-users.

And again, the robots market will probably not evolve anything near as fast as the computers.