We can't deny robots their humanoid rights

The last time the British government embarked on a serious overhaul of its labour laws, the country was blazing with the fires and unrest of the first industrial revolution. Now it may be on the brink of extending basic workers' rights to robots at the dawn of a very different age. As artificial intelligence begins to vie with humans for jobs everywhere from factory floors to solicitors' chambers, the EU is to vote on controversial plans to declare autonomous robots "electronic persons".