Phantom Quadrant presents:

Medication robot absorbs pills, creates a pillbot, feeds them to a patient and sprays them back in

Zombie doctor: The robot has a hand in the pocket to help make it look ‘medical’

The question of what a robot should look like and what it should do became a running joke, for a while at least.

The earlier robots from the famous humanoid development firm Rethink Robotics were about an aesthetic and weight for their two arms.

But in the past year, bots from Aquila Robotics have become a hit with surgeons in major medical centers for providing an ‘inside the human’ experience.

Now an Israeli-American company, iRobot, has stepped into the fray by introducing the Bot