With people consuming more and more, an inevitable question is: Who will take out the garbage?

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"He will empty the dishwasher and not say anything to me, and I will get him back and take out the garbage, " she says.

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His vision: A few years from now humanoid robots--remotely controlled by joystick jockeys at call centers in low-wage countries like China--will prepare your lunch, take out the garbage, do the laundry.

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Across the heavily fortified American bases in Iraq, men and women like Salim Khan cook the food, clean the dishes, chop the vegetables, take out the garbage and clean the latrines.

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