ROBOTS REALLY ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD.

They’re writing novels – the first was 1 The Road published in 2018, a cyborg’s homage to Jack Kerouac’s On The Road. And they’re making lunch: a robot that can make 2000 burgers a day is being tried out by US restaurant chain CaliBurger. What human can compete – especially given that androids don’t complain or ask for a pay rise? But we are quickly learning that there is another side of robotkind, one that’s all too human. Here’s a by-no-means-complete list of failed attempts by automatons to replace us flesh-and-bone types.