In the robot age, are you sure you're a human?

At the top of Mount Olympus, Hephaestus – the Greek god of fire and a blacksmith – built a palace for his fellow deities. Inside, he crafted robotic golden statues to serve them. Greek mythology tells us that a fascination with the robotic is as old as western civilization. In the intervening centuries, so advanced have AI, robotics and digital technologies become that sometimes it's easy to think we're being overtaken by innovation. Yet to hide in fear of a jobless apocalypse and a grim vision of rule by robots is to focus on only one side of a complex argument. Flip this negativity on its head and we see that, far from dominating life, technology could be used to help define and complement the human in all of us.