Introducing; Your New Robot Overlords

Okay, two news items this week highlight the fact that humanity's impending obsolence may be arriving sooner than we realized:

1. Creepy-ass ultra-realistic robot unveiled at the 2005 World Expo in Japan. Covered in "skin-like silicone", and featuring various human-like twitches and fidgets, this would be freaky-cool if the article didn't point out it is powered by a "nearby air compressor."

2. Japanese (hmm...I'm sensing a trend, here.) researchers at the U of Tokyo announce that they have invented a human-like skin that can sense both heat and pressure. The headline reads: Human-like skin gives robots sense of touch

On the plus side, I hear the project managers responsible for developing SkyNet are months behind schedule.