Robot obeys. Robot does what human Master wants. Robot is Slave. Androids today are quite “primitive” - they don’t look convincingly “human” - not yet. But soon, they’ll be indistinguishable from us….
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I agree that we are interested in robots as slaves, but the majority of all robotic devices will actually be invisible - just tools.