We should not be afraid of advanced robotics playing a vital part in our future lives.

Definition of robot: a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.You are completely circulating your argument against advanced robotics solely around the basis that the human species won't be able to control it if it did exist. I think you've definitely been indulging too heavily in the themes of 'I, Robot' and other Hollywood films that slip into the same category.Humans are in control. We have enslaved this Earth and all of its beings and that shall never change as long as we sustain our existence on this planet. We have created money, banks, police forces, armies, politicians, schools, universities, prisons and everything else that gives us control over every human being and any other species that live on this planet. You mention the idea that we could be experiencing the full positive potential of technology right now, but I can assure that that is almost certainly not true. In the coming thirty-fifty years, the technology we possess right now will only further benefit human existence in every aspect of society. Technology is and has always improved, so there's no doubt that progression will never stop.For example, medicinal technology will vastly improve, saving millions of human lives around the world and significantly decreasing rates in third-world countries across the globe. Along with enhanced medicinal technologies, TVs will become bigger and slimmer, phone's faster and more comprehensive, cars more energy efficient and computers will store more data. These are all inevitability's and will only make the average humans life easier and more efficient. However, you're main fear is that we may end up creating over-intelligent technology that thinks for itself and acts against human existence. This is extremely far-fetched. Robots require programming, so they will only ever do what we tell them to do. Furthermore, robotics require some form of power to operate (usually electrical) - who generates and controls energy on this planet? Oh yeah, us. If we have the ability and intelligence to create advanced robotics, then I'm sure we have the credentials to pull the plug if control were to briefly slip out of our greedy hands.Even in the event that we do discover a way to create an entity that's more intelligent than us, who's to say we'll give it arms and legs and the ability to move freely around this world? At best, we might stick a hard drive in it and boot it up with the flick of a switch.Moreover, the idea that this technology would become accessible to every ordinary human being on Earth is absurd. We've already created technology that could wipe out the living world, nuclear bombs. However, as much as I'm sure the world feared what terror nuclear bombs might bring to this planet, they are strictly kept out of the hands of the public and are tightly moderated by the world's most credible people - professionals that know what they're doing.No robots have taken our jobs, those are called machines, and those aren't new things. Machines have been implemented in factories since the mid-20th century and have been doing the jobs humans don't can't or want to do, and far more efficiently. Machines lift and move objects that are too heavy for us to lift and rapidly increase production in this country, fuelling the economy.The concept that robots will eventually become more powerful than us is a Hollywood fad that belongs only the multi-million pound contract of a movie. Even if one incident did spontaneously break out in the future after we'd manufactured advanced robots more intelligent than us, we would act on it like a fox chasing a rabbit and the problem would be eliminated before it even started to become serious. Rememember, humans are in control, and nothing will change that as long as we surivive on Earth...and soon to be, Mars.