Yahoo! Finance- On a windy morning in California's Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds.
Police can strap bombs to robots to thwart bad guys in emergency situations.
The robots still can't operate without the help of an actual server and look to assist employees instead of replacing them.
Apple wanted robots than human labor to perform tasks, but the time proves that the idea was impractical and the consequences were unsatisfactory.
It seems like a good idea to automate jobs like this :)