In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.