“We were promised a life of leisure thanks to hard-working robots and fiendishly clever cyborgs. But the android fantasy has largely been terminated,” says The Independent. “For years technocrats have been touting robots as the next big revolution, so big that their importance will rival that of car production and that they will create a utopia, “an Athens without the slaves”, as British agriculture minister Peter Walker put it in 1983. But despite such claims, the development of mass-produced useful, commercial robots hasn’t much moved beyond the glorified nut tighteners that work at car factories. Some think it never will.”