Did or do you like robots?

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Thanks to all who responded! I'm eager to hear more insights or opinions!

I had a Roomba robot vacuum, I loved it. But I would not want some "I, Robot" type thing in my house though.

A cute female robot might be interesting, preferably the pleasure model

I love robots. Fascinating stuff. Not the Transformers or Terminator type, but humanoids and little smart droids. Issac Asimov is my favorite writer.

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I always wanted to be the Steve Jobs of robots and artificial intelligence i just want a robot as my friend, for example if someone would kill a human speaking robot i would be more sad then a human speaking human.

I am ready to shoot on sight robots that look too human.

Yes, which is why I'm considering going into mechanical engineering.

I went through a stage of wanting to become one when I was younger. Actually, I still quite like the idea. My brother was really interested in a robotics career and kept threatening to 'experiment' on me. I was perfectly happy with that. I would rather upgrade my body when I hit 60/70 instead of watching my limbs wither away and and become useless. My family tend to live a long time without any dementure or similar 'brain' illnesses, and the thought of living to 100 all alone and being stuck at home in a frail and useless human body scares me a bit. Society also judges people on appearance and youth and having a stronger non-biological body and perpetually younger appearance (yeah, I would go for an AI Jane look) would be amazing!

I'm interested in robots and their capabilities, and objectively I like the idea of having them around.

But honestly, every robot I've met (including things that I believed to be robots, which actually weren't) has terrified me. I get very scared of the idea of them going out of control - as a child it was this idea of them simply being out of control, and as an adult it became a little more linked with my fear of fire and the possibility that an out of control robot might also be a fire hazard.

No, I hate robots. They're slowly taking over everything, and lots of jobs these days are becoming replaced by robots (machines). I even heard that cars and buses will be ''self-driven'' in the distant future, meaning many bus and taxi-drivers will lose their jobs and be replaced by a robot.

Society is becoming so carried away with inventing all this new fancy technology and thinking how great it is, that we are forgetting that the purpose of most jobs is for people to earn a living, not for a pile of wires and circuits to slave society.

In years to come the only people who will be in jobs will be the mechanics to repair these fantastic pieces of technology when they go wrong - until they then invent robots to repair the robots, then invent more robots to repair the robots that repair the robots.

Scary.

Optimums Prime? Yes! Real life robots? Not so much.