WALL•E at work. Courtesy of Walt Disney 2008's “WALL•E”.

Anyone who has watched the delightful Walt Disney’s movie, “WALLE•E”, will know the potential of robots and the roles they could play in our lives. If you have any doubt look at Japan, which is producing robots that are capable of doing so many human actions.

A lie-detector robot could be a real possibility in the future. And, should this come to pass, this could a possible scenario in most people's lives:

JOHN was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual 
gimmick. His wife, Marsha, has long ago given up trying to get him to 
change. 



One day John came home about noon and told Marsha that he had gone to 
a nearby city and purchased a robot. It was no ordinary robot, but it
 was in fact a lie detector. He said it had to charge four to five hours, 
 and then he would show her how it worked. 


At 5.30 pm that afternoon Tommy, their 11-year- old son, came in from school, more than two hours late. Both parents were 
understandably angry. 



“Where have you been? Why are you over two hours late getting home?” they asked. 



“Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit 
project,” said Tommy.



The robot walked around the table and slapped Tommy, knocking him
 completely out of his chair. 



“Son, this robot is a lie detector, now tell us where you went after school."

“We went to Bobby's house and watched a movie."

“What did you watch?” asked Marsha. 



“The Ten Commandments."

The robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him, knocking
 him off his chair. 



With lip quivering Tommy got up, sat down and said, “I am sorry I
 lied. We really watched a tape called ‘Sex Queen’.”

“I'm ashamed of you son,” said John. “When I was your age, I never
 lied to my parents, never tried to see dirty pictures, much less dirty 
movies, told dirty jokes, nor did I misbehave.”



The robot walked around to John and delivered a roundhouse right that 
not only knocked him out of his chair, but out the back door and half
way across the patio. 



When he came back inside Marsha was bent double laughing, almost in 
tears. “Boy, did you ever ask for that one! And you can't be too mad
 with Tommy. After all, he is your son!'
”

The robot immediately walked around to Marsha, and literally slapped 
the shit out of her, not once, but three times.