Newsflash! Robots can't live without us

Flippy, the burger flipping robot only lasted two days before the plug was pulled, temporarily, suggesting that the future we dream about is going to take a whole lot longer to arrive. But it hit with a thud as reality quickly sunk in. The growing robotic list goes way beyond factory production lines to include self-driving cars, delivery drones and especially the one we encountered this past week, the burger-flipper. On its surface, the idea sounds like a no-brainer: Replace young men and women who can't take the heat and monotony of standing over a hot griddle -- and end up quitting in weeks, if not months -- with a robot. A $100,000 robot can grill hamburgers to perfection all day long.