In the future, robots may control the world. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, according to Steve Wozniak.

Speaking in Austin, Texas this week, the Apple co-founder said he used to be really worried about artificial intelligence—to the point where it kept him up at night (Elon Musk and Bill Gates have expressed similar fears). But Woz has now realized that it could actually benefit the human race in the long run.

"They're going to be smarter than us and if they're smarter than us then they'll realize they need us," Wozniak said at the Freescale Technology Forum 2015, according to a report from TechRepublic. It's not going to happen for "hundreds of years," but eventually, robots will be so smart that they'll "know they have to keep nature, and humans are part of nature."

Woz said that he got over his fear that humans would be replaced by computers by realizing that "they're going to help us."

"We're at least the gods originally," he added.

Meanwhile, the Internet of Things—or connecting physical objects like air conditioners, dog collars, toilets, and just about anything else to the Web—is paving the way for this robot future, Woz said. And he's fine with that.

"I want the Internet of Things," he said. "It does things for me. I don't have to think. The Internet of Things, if it ever did want to take over the world, would send a message to the computers of today saying, 'build us the Internet of Things, that's what we need.' It makes things nice for humans, so we want this. If it turned on us, it would surprise us. But we want to be the family pet and be taken care of all the time."

If you want to get this robot revolution started early, Softbank just started selling its Pepper robot, which is designed to read emotions. The first batch of Peppers sold out immediately in Japan, but more are expected soon—for just over $1,600.