Now the clucky get clackity - smh.com.au

Rodney Brooks, the Australian-born head of the artificial intelligence lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes an affordable child-replacement is a long way off. "It is only Japanese companies that are pushing humanoid robots as commercial products and I do not yet see the cost-effectiveness of them; certainly not for the next 10 years, and maybe not for at least 50 years."