Robots around us...

Where are they?

The reality is that robots are no more science fiction, they are here and not just in a physical form. If we consider automated tasks as a form of robotics, then robots have being with us for a long time in form of software. Actually, nowadays there is even software that writes news articles by itself, and it makes it very well. An article referred to this can be found in the online site of "Weired" magazine: 

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"Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece(...)

Every 30 seconds or so, the algorithmic bull pen of Narrative Science, a 30-person company occupying a large room on the fringes of the Chicago Loop, extrudes a story whose very byline is a question of philosophical inquiry. The computer-written product could be a pennant-waving second-half update of a Big Ten basketball contest, a sober preview of a corporate earnings statement, or a blithe summary of the presidential horse race drawn from Twitter posts. The articles run on the websites of respected publishers like Forbes, as well as other Internet media powers (many of which are keeping their identities private). Niche news services hire Narrative Science to write updates for their subscribers, be they sports fans, small-cap investors, or fast-food franchise owners." - From "Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter" article - (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/can-an-algorithm-write-a-better-news-story-than-a-human-reporter/)