Robots: a fantasy of the present?

A slideshow, on MSN. com, called "Rise of the Machines" cause me to rethink how close we are to having robots become apart of our everyday lives.  The slideshow depicted robots, each with a unique and human like name, preforming a multitude of task, ranging from catching a ball to cleaning dishes to interacting with kids to attaching to paralyzed limbs to pretty much everything imaginable.  As technology continues to progress it seems as if there is no limit to the involvement it will have in our lives; parallel to De La Pena's  article technology will continue to "invade" our lives.  From raising our kids to becoming part of our body humans will continue to form an intimate relationship with machines that will lead humans and machines to become indistinguishable.