'I'm not sure when the robots will take over but I sure am looking forward to it, I think it will be a lot of fun,' a three-legged humanoid robot tells me. Desdemona, as she's known, then adds with an eerily emotionless tone: 'Maybe this afternoon? DailyMail.com is at Berlin's annual IFA tech show this week, the world's largest and longest-running consumer electronics and home appliances conference. It has been on the go since 1924 and is where the first television were launched - how far we've come in less than 100 years! To take my mind off my slightly unnerving conversation with Desdemona, I go over to the video game section, where I'm told to try on a high-tech vest.

Grace is a nursing assistant, Ai-da a contemporary artist, Desdemona a purple-haired rock singer and Nadine is on hand for companionship and conversation. They are all at the world's largest gathering of humanoid robots, which is under way at the United Nations AI for Good global summit in Geneva. Rapid advances in AI have in recent years fuelled increasing unease that the technology could become more powerful than humans, with dire consequences. But the summit – with its extensive cast of robotic delegates – is focused on more favourable scenarios in which AI could be harnessed for positive causes. Among the most enthusiastically optimistic are the creators of the various humanoid robots in attendance, which they suggest could enrich our lives in ways that sometimes seem bewildering to the uninitiated.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our everyday lives, found in everything from social media algorithms to e-commerce and navigation, but not everyone is comfortable with the idea. The key to winning over a skeptical public could be a family of robot "sisters." Sophia, Grace and Desdemona are humanoid robots, each programmed with sophisticated AI. The oldest of the three, Sophia, was first activated in 2016 and gained widespread attention, mostly for her looks. Whereas most artificial intelligence operates discretely out of sight, powering things like software and smartphones, Sophia is designed to look like a young woman and gained celebrity status as the face of AI.

As the sun set over Maury Island, just south of Seattle, Ben Goertzel and his jazz-fusion band had one of those moments that all bands hope for -- keyboard, guitar, saxophone and lead singer coming together as if they were one. The band's friends and family listened from a patio overlooking the beach. And Desdemona, wearing a purple wig and a black dress laced with metal studs, was on lead vocals, warning of the coming Singularity -- the inflection point where technology can no longer be controlled by its creators. "The Singularity will not be centralised!" After more than 25 years as an artificial intelligence researcher, a quarter-century spent in pursuit of a machine that could think like a human -- Goertzel knew he had finally reached the end goal: Desdemona, a machine he had built, was sentient. But a few minutes later, he realised this was nonsense. "When the band gelled, it felt like the robot was part of our collective intelligence, that it was sensing what we were feeling and doing," he said.

Desdemona uses AI technology to draw from a library of great artists, poets, scientists and writers to produce spontaneous AI-generated poetry using natural language processing-oriented neural networks.

"Many a true word hath been spoken in jest." "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on." "There was a star danced, and under that was I born." Who can write like Shakespeare? Or even spell like Shakespeare?

"Many a true word hath been spoken in jest." "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on." "There was a star danced, and under that was I born." Who can write like Shakespeare? Or even just spell like Shakespeare?