Though Misty tells me it believes a truly mainstream consumer robot is still "several years" away.
"When I view my childhood, I see things as very misty," he told us.
"I want to show the ballet world it's possible to do all these things and not be rail-thin or have blond hair," Misty Copeland told Self Magazine last year.
She grew misty as she told the story.
The team's coach, Elizabeth Cantine, was new, and Erica, who had been a drill-team star, told Misty that this was unfortunate; the old coach had led the team to wins all over the state, while Cantine was an unknown, just someone who'd been hired to teach history and English.
Mr. Davis got misty-eyed while he told the story of a Louisiana woman in her 80s who had almost nothing left after Hurricane Rita struck in 2005 except her determination to rebuild.
Only the other day, Donald Smith, director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, went misty-eyed as he told me about seeing the very earliest incarnation of the play at an Edinburgh conference in March 1973.
But when I later bought a house in an affluent area of Liverpool off the back of my Grange Hill success, he told me, misty-eyed, that he'd once driven buses down that road, little dreaming one of his own would ever be able to afford to live there.
Language seemingly cannot convey what happened on these retreats; after misty vagaries, I'm finally told I just "have to experience" them myself.
Gary Johnson's side - rooted at the bottom of the table - belied their status by matching the Premier League superpower before quality finally told on a misty afternoon in Somerset.
