The human-like robots may have been intended to play a part.
I ask if he'd like to see human-like robots walking down the street, and he laughs and says maybe in 20 years or, indicating his colleague, maybe next year.
This episode marks the first appearance of human-like robots on BTVS.
They are transform to human-like robot.
"In the near future we are going to use more human-like robots, I really think so."
Several of the Joes, such as Snake Eyes, Hawk and Roadblock, end up piloting large, human-like robots themselves.
Naomi Armitage is an illegal "Third type" android-the most human-like robot ever.
Hanson develops human-like robots with realistic facial expressions and conversational abilities [Hanson et al., 2006].
At the moment, there are not that many real human-like robots in the world.
In science fiction, while human-like robots (Androids) are fairly frequent and animal-like biomorphic robots turn up occasionally, plantoids are quite rare.