Yes, this is the future,but there are many unresolved issues, because the implementation of such a project is not enough to have a good team, it is necessary to have a clear idea and find work in the field of robotics. Where will you take the resources?
So you mean they must add more team for them to continue the project before proceeding to the next step? And what are those unresolved issues that you mentioned? Kepler is somehow have a good concept which is about robots and nowadays people are creating robots to speed up the production of things. So, I can conclude this will some place in the future.