Robot overlords? Well that's a bit dramatic

Pooyan Fazli and Alan K. Mackworth, both from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, believe that instead of thinking about robots taking over the world, we instead should be thinking more of them as buddies and potential work colleagues.

Their paper Human-Robot Teams in Entertainment and Other Everyday Scenarios has some great ideas that makes me want to run out and grab an army of robots to help me out around the hutch.

The pair state several scenarios where robots and humans could in fact join forces to create a super force.

Well maybe not a super force but at least play and get along with each other in such fields as the movie industry, robots as tour guides or guards at museums and galleries.

In a brilliant idea they also suggest that humans could compete against robots in sport, in particular segway soccer, which I think is a genius idea.

Anyone scared of robots ruling the world should take a step back though.

Here are some other great news about robotic technology and their positive impacts on life:

*Exoskeletons march on Japan (Source: IEEE Spectrum Online)
*A review of the best robots of 2008 (Source: Singularity Hub)
*Robots rebuilding themselves (Source: New York Times)