I'm sorry, my friend, but robots are a solution in search of a problem....why not simply use people? Let's take a specific example. Washing dishes. Why do most

I'm sorry, my friend, but robots are a solution in search of a problem....why not simply use people? Let's take a specific example. Washing dishes. Why do most people have dishwashers instead of washing dishes by hand? Two easy responses are that it's both more convenient and more efficient to have a dishwasher wash the dishes. So you have both a time and resource savings. Sure, a dishwasher might not be humanoid, or even what we think of when we here the term "robot", but it's still a machine performing a function in place of what we would do manually. With just that as a starting point, you can think up nearly unlimited examples for where this type of automation can improve our lives. Automated cars would be safer (and by extension, you could have things like automated trash pickup and automated street cleaners). How about a bathroom that kept itself clean (runs a regular self-wash cycle)?