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Where’s my Robot?

So where exactly are the genius robots our intellectual forefathers promised us?
This was supposed to be the future. We were supposed to have robots at our beck and call – automated butlers and household servants to make our lives easier. Our cars would drive themselves, much like the autopilot on a plane, and we could just lounge on the seats watching movies on the built-in TV screens.

But none of that has happened yet, nor does it seem likely to happen anytime soon if this mini-documentary is to be believed.

Taking off around the world, comedian and host Danny Wallace travels to the top robot spots to discover just how close we are to getting a walking, talking, thinking, seeing robot to dote over us. As it turns out, making a robot capable of all that is a lot harder than you’d expect – likely ruining the hopes of lazy people everywhere.

This is a fascinating documentary that makes you deliberate over the endless possibilities of robotics. Also to its credit, Where’s my Robot? doesn’t get bogged down in technical details. The scariest thought to come out of it is that if robots do eventually exist and are for all intents and purposes human, where does that leave us?

Where’s my Robot? airs on SBS on Sunday, November 16, at 8:35pm.

Patrick Tangye