Are Robots about to take over our lives?

Robots have evolved over the years. Before, they were simple machines, but now they are something better.
In 1961 the very first robot was made. It joined the assembly line at General Motors Plant in Ewing Township. It was nothing like the scary, metallic machines you used to see on tv. It was an automated die-casting mold that dropped red-hot door handles and other such car parts into pools of cooling liquid, on a line that moved them along to workers for trimming and buffing.

Since the 1980's these remarkable electronic human like beings have been evolving for the better. They can do things from vaccuming to speaking and walking. Robots are so good in fact, that they have replaced humans in dangerous jobs such as mine-clearance work, to save lives.

Japan is famously known for manufacturing these human like robots. In 2005 they made a very realistic human look a like android; called Q1, that can do the same things that we can, such as blinking, breathing and speaking. If you looked at it from a distance, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Q1 and a real human being. This android can even pretend to slap someone, thats one robot you don't want to mess with. Hiroshi Ishiguru, the man that made Q1, said that when a robot looks too much like the real thing, it's creepy.

Many people wonder what will happen if robots keep on getting better, will they replace humans in their jobs? Or will they take over the planet? Well, we'll just have to wait and see what the future has in stall for us and robots...