In the future, everyone will own a robot that will carry out their bidding, and order their coffee and scones.

Wait, what?

That last part is actually true: Someone sent out an to order a scone from a cafe in Mountain View, CA.

While we're on the topic of slightly creepy robotics developments, there's this story about an online service under development that would allow robots to share information with each other. No word on whether it'll be used to organize a robo-revolution.