Unfortunately, having your own sleepy-time robot doesn’t come inexpensively. According to Fast Company, Somnox finished its first Kickstarter campaign last month, raising about $240,000, and now ...

She would simply put him back to bed and walk away. The parent added that she probably put her child back in bed 100 times – and it lasted an hour – but eventually he caved and went to sleep.

"The robots will do the things that we don't want to do, that injure us, that drive people out of these industries, and it'll allow people to gain new skills and do work in new ways," Cardenas said.

Well, it looks like we can draw a big, fat, red line through “run over a pile of rocks” and “knock it off-balance with a 20-pound weight” on our list of ways to escape when a humanoid ...