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Whether or not you’re still skeptical about the involvement of robots and artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the fact of the matter is that robots are “alive” and well as you read this. From serving food to creating art, and even helping protect people, check out the new tech that’s working its algorithmic magic (and try not to think about all the jobs they’re taking).

▲A robot waiter serves up some goodies to customers at a café. Do you tip?

▲Yes, they made a real transformer—robot in disguise. This transforming robot called "J-deite RIDE" was developed by Brave Robotics Inc, Asratec Corp and Sansei Technologies Inc, and turns itself into a passenger vehicle.

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While most waiter robots are taking jobs, these remotely controlled OriHime-D robots are meant to promote employment of disabled people as they can be told to move, observe, talk to customers, and carry objects from afar, even if their operator is severely paralyzed.

▲Sophie, Techmetics' Techi Butler room service robot, exits an elevator to go deliver food to hotel rooms. One plus side is that there's no judgement when you order that chocolate fudge sundae and three orders of fries at midnight.

▲Children giggle at a security robot patrolling a residential compound. To be fair, it does kind of look like a Pixar character.

▲Toyota engineers developed a basketball-playing robot called CUE, who sinks a free throw without breaking a sweat.

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This bartender robot, called S-MIX, can fix you a stiff drink.

▲Designed by AvatarMind, these iPal social robots were created to offer education, care, and companionship to children and seniors. The 3.5-ft tall (1 m) humanoid robots come in two "genders," and can tell stories, take photos, and deliver educational or promotional content.

▲A Pizzaiolo robot prepares a customer's order right before their eyes at the showroom of French food startup EKIM. The secret ingredient is no longer love.

▲Yoon Lee, Samsung America senior vice president, has his vital signs taken by Samsung Bot Care, a healthcare robot. When do the nurses get involved?

▲At the Hajime Robot restaurant, a robot waitress dressed as a samurai brings food to the tables.

▲A robotic arm plays the guitar at Zhuhai Gree Electric's booth at the World Robot Conference—but, can it smash the guitar like a rock star?

▲Draaksha is a solar-powered traffic diversion robot manufactured by Triumphant Robotics with Eminent Embedded Systems Private Limited.

▲In case you weren't sure, robots can't be put out with a little water. This robotic fish mimics the rippling movements of aquatic creatures.

▲Model Adesuwa Aighewi takes a selfie while she's interviewed by Sophia, a humanoid robot created by Hanson Robotics. Sophia can hold conversations, make eye contact and facial expressions, and has artificial software that helps it create its own personality. Sophia's become something of an international superstar.

▲Robots wearing a nurse costumes carry medical documents at Mongkutwattana General Hospital and are hardly noticed anymore.

▲A visitor competes with a robot in a game of Scrabble during the annual Computex computer exhibition.

▲People retrieve their parcels from a JD.com self-driving delivery robot.

▲Justin, as this robot is called, was developed by the German air and space agency DLR, with the purpose of fixing satellites and helping astronauts in space. It can also do other autonomous tasks like tidying up, making coffee, and playing catch.

▲Police officers are accompanied by an intimidating security robot to patrol a railway station as the annual Spring Festival travel rush begins.

▲Modeled on Japanese TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, this android robot named 'Totto' looks all too real.

▲These pet fitness robots can move automatically or be controlled with a smartphone, so you don't have to move when your pet won't stop.

▲This little robot attracts attention as it performs yoga at the fourth annual America Digital Latin American Congress of Business and Technology.

▲This SEED Solutions humanoid robot performs the classical Japanese musical drama 'Noh.'

▲A robot kicks a soccer ball inside a Huawei booth at the Mobile World Congress. Do you think Messi is worried?

▲A humanoid robot, designed by I-Fairy, serves as a witness to a marriage service between Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue.

▲The humanoid robot YuMi directs the Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra, along with a performance by Andrea Bocelli.

▲Harrison, a five-year-old autistic kid, plays with Kasper, a humanoid robot who is the same height. The robot was created to interact with children with autism.

▲Robot jockeys take part in a camel race.

▲ASIMO is a humanoid robot created by Honda. Here it serves tea to a visitor at a fair.

▲ChihiraAico, an android communication robot, talks to visitors during a technology fair.

▲Actor Antonio Banderas shares a hug with the robot used in 'Automata,' a movie he starred in.

▲Designed by Sony, the AIBO robot shows off some of its capabilities.

▲Ian Frejean is an 11-year-old patient who walks hand in hand with "Zora." The humanoid robot was created to support nurses and entertain patients.

▲An audience watches Teo Tronico, a humanoid model designed by Matteo Suzzi, playing piano at a conference on robots.

▲T-HR3, a humanoid robot by Toyota, shows off what it can do during an exhibition.

▲A group of robots dance at a robot competition in China.

▲A monk poses next to a robot dressed in Buddhist clothing at an exhibition.

▲Omron Corporation shows Forpheus, a new robot designed to play table tennis. His opposition is Olympic medalist Jun Mizutani.

▲Designed by Murata Manufacturing Co., the Murata Cheerleaders show they can dance in synchronization.

▲Eagle Prime is a huge robot created by MegaBots Inc., a company which makes combat robots which can be controlled.

▲A group of Egyptian engineers test out their underwater robot. Their invention won them third place in a NASA competition.

▲A visitor interacts with an iCub robot at a conference, designed by an Italian team.

▲A woman takes a selfie with HI-4, a humanoid robot created with the same facial features as its Japanese creator, Hiroshi Ishiguro.

▲BoniRob, a robot designed by Bosch, appears in the foreground of this photo taken in a field near Stuttgart.

▲BIG-i robot takes a photo of the CEO of NXROBO, Lam Tin-lun, during an exhibition.

▲During a conference, a member of Toyota listens to the voice of a tiny robot created by the company.

▲A humanoid robot works in a team with human colleagues on a production line in a Glory Ltd. factory, in Japan.

▲A student shows how it's possible to control two robots using commands linked from his brain.

▲Titan, a robot created by Cyberstein Robots Ltd., shows what it's capable of during an event in a shopping mall.

▲The Yamaha Motor Co Ltd displays a company prototype, the 'MOTOBOT Ver. 1', an autonomous motorbike.

▲Pepper is a robot created to look after and welcome patients and visitors at AZ Damiaan hospital. It holds the hand of a newborn baby.

▲A robot simulates the use of medical equipment on a model of a human skeleton.

▲Marc Raibert, founder and CEO of Boston Dynamics, appears during a demonstration of a robot created by his company.

▲This autonomous robot is used for deliveries, and can carry up to 10 kg (22 lbs).

▲A robot DJ plays music in a night club.

▲A robot picks tea leaves during a demonstration.

▲A robot inspects the facilities at an electricity station.

▲Three visitors watch a robot created to act as a police officer, during a conference on safety.

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Two robots work on Mt Etna, carrying out a job that would be risky for humans to do.

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In a first-of-its-kind event, nearly two dozen humanoid robots joined human runners in a half-marathon held in Beijing, completing 21.1 kilometers (13.1 miles). Organized as a parallel race with safety dividers separating robots and humans, the robots were all shapes and sizes. The robotic winner finished the race with a time of 2 hours, 40 minutes, and 42 seconds—well behind professional human runners, but close to the average finish time of amateur participants.