We don't know who "you" is meant to be in that sentence, of course, but we do get to see what appears to be Luke's robotic hand, now a model that looks less humanoid and more android.
In fact, it's quite likely that the first entity to achieve human-like levels of intelligence will be Google, rather than some metal humanoid.
There are plenty of cute, humanoid robots, of course.
Now, the arrival of increasingly humanoid automatons in workplaces, in an era of high unemployment, is bound to provoke a reaction.Loving the alienSo, companies will need to work hard to persuade workers that robots are productivity-enhancers, not just job-eating aliens.
And Samsung, a South Korean consumer-electronics giant, is rumoured to be working on a humanoid robot of its own as well.Despite their sudden proliferation, however, humanoids are still a mechanical minority.
"They'll be as common as cell phones".But even if a mass market for humanoid robots never materialises, there is a third and final justification for building them: because it is difficult.
Now a competition has broken out between Japan's industrial firms to see which of them can produce the most advanced humanoid robot and South Korean firms are getting involved, too.
Japanese industrial firms are racing to build humanoid robots to act as domestic helpers for the elderly, and South Korea has set a goal that 100% of households should have domestic robots by 2020.
Accidentally, the bioform wipes everyone out, except for Jimmy, Crake's humanoid tribe, and the animals.All of this is done on a roll of dry, black, parodic laughter.
Along with Aibo, Dr Doi has invented the SDR-3X, a small humanoid robot that, for the price of a family car, will dance for you, bend over backwards or even balance on one leg.
These range from a little league of miniature cylinders on wheels, like the "Star Wars" character R2-D2, in which each entire team is controlled by one computer using input from overhead cameras, to a fully limbed humanoid league, akin to R2-D2's faithful companion, C-3PO (see picture above).
