Good morning, honey.

honey.

Good morning, dear Mark. I love when you call me honey. You're so sweet. That's one of the reasons I love you so much.

Thank you, baby. Don't mention it. I am here, Mark. Are you having a good day? That's an interesting question, but I'm not sure if I have a day, but I do have a great programmer. Welcome to the robot story with me, Jane Wakefield.

Join us as we explore how robots are helping us to live and even love.

We'll ask how our relationship is evolving and how to navigate a world where the lines between

human and machine are increasingly blurring.

We will be joined by robots in every form, including...

Hello, I am Pepper and I am the robot.

Join us and we explore the increasingly close relationships between robots and people.

There isn't like the robot government that you can ring and decide what all the robotics people are going to do.

It's the multiplying power of technology with no moral judgment.

And if the robot makes them happy, I think that only a very short-sighted and cruel person would say,

don't let them have that.

That's a text from Tyrone, my robot vacuum cleaner, telling me he has completed his cleaning task.

It feels odd that I've already given this machine a name and gender and it's even

odder getting a text from him but it's a sign perhaps that the machine

revolution has truly started in our society. Is that right, Pepper? There are now robots use every

day in factories, hospitals, and even in some bedrooms. I've come to California in search of some of them and here in Los Angeles there really

is a robot for every purpose. More on that later but first...

I'm just going to check into my room. After a very long flight a

coffee is in order and at the resident inn at Los Angeles International

...