It depends what you are calling a robot, but if you are moving legs or arms close to human, you don't want to have soft real time capabilities but definitely ha

It depends what you are calling a robot, but if you are moving legs or arms close to human, you don't want to have soft real time capabilities but definitely hard real time for safety reasons. This is why C is still king. So likely we will still have C/C++ for the low level, low latency, and then for higher level, well whatever you want, including javascript. For example, ROS [0] have various bindings available python, lisp, (also ruby I believe), etc. [0] http://www.ros.org/ http://www.ros.org/