An inventor organises a meeting with a large technology firm to demonstrate his latest creation in the hopes of getting it onto the market.
Alone in a room with the CEO, he says to her, "I'd like you to meet Servobot 1999," and gestures to the door.
A boxy, roughly humanoid-shaped contraption wobbles into the room on clunky actuated legs. It has a big monitor for a face on which some poorly scribbled features have been defined.
The CEO looks disappointed. "What does it do?" She asks.
"Any…