"We give 'em oil and nuts and bolts and they're happy guys..."

I can wait for the next model of Bon Tron 2000s to roll off the assembly line.

If they come equipped with machine guns (or even kung-fu grip) we are doomed . Doomed. DOOMED!

I have highlighted the passages below that remind me of my of the current Bon Tron model. I must admit, they are so like like that I sometimes forget that I am not dealing with an actual human!

WALTHAM (WBZ) ― It's nimble. It's quick. It can fit into small spaces, and best of all, take a pipe bomb out of a mailbox bare-handed. "It" is a police robot in the midst of a competition in Waltham, between bomb squad officers from all over the country.
They are training on the latest robot technology that could someday save their lives. "We deal with him just like any other partner; we take care of them," said San Francisco bomb squad officer Dino Zografos.

"We give 'em oil and nuts and bolts and they're happy guys…If nobody gets hurt it's a great deal for everybody." Zografos says this is one partner that has already come through for him. One time his robot flushed out a barricaded gunman.

"The bad guy, I don't know what he was thinking, his frame of mind, but he saw the robot and psychologically it bothered him because he wasn't dealing with a human being now, so in his mind, it caused him to give up," Zografos described.

These robots can hand you something, just like a human. They can see you - through a camera, and hear you with the use of a microphone. And they aren't just for police departments. The U.S. military is using hundreds of similar robots in Iraq and other war zones around the world.

Next off the assembly line is a robot with a machine gun. It's not in use yet, but soon a soldier will be able to control it from the safety of a jeep. "They might use these in checkpoints," Zografos said. "It gives a soldier a stand off distance… keeps the soldiers out of harm's way." Because whether it's a war zone, or a city street, a robot down is better than a man down.