Where's my talking robot?

"Be aware of how the balance of control is shifting" NB: This article was first published in 2012 and was copied here in 2020. For as long as humans have been inventing new technologies, we have tried to use these technologies to create automatons in our image. In other words, robots that we can talk to. Our oldest myths include robots made from clay. With the advent of metalworking, Hephaestus, blacksmith to the ancient greek gods, built handmaidens out of gold.