That's absurd. The energy it takes to make such a machine, to maintain it, etc. is probably so much more than what it takes to have a human doing it. Plus the

That's absurd. The energy it takes to make such a machine, to maintain it, etc. is probably so much more than what it takes to have a human doing it. Plus the fact that the human will actually talk to me. I can understand that humanity looks forward to more automation. But in this case, it seems we loose so much. Plus the fact that, as with many manual/creative skills, a robot is nowhere close being able to work as good as a human. Just one more example of people who wrongly assimilate "innovation" to "progress".