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Should we fear or embrace the advent of "co-bots" - robot colleagues? Ed Butler reports on the startling advances in the automation of the workplace.

He encounters a veritable menagerie of automatons at London's Science Museum, where lead curator Ben Russell shows our presenter around their latest special robots exhibition, featuring everything from mediaeval clockwork mannequins to a pair of self-propelling mechanised legs.

The 麻豆视频AV's Audrey Tinline reports from the Netherlands, where some offices are already renting robotic arms to save their human employees from incurring repetitive strain injuries.

Meanwhile Ed heads to the north London offices of Shadow Robot, where managing director Rich Walker shows off his company's robotic hand. But what exactly is it for?

Producer: Laurence Knight

(Picture: Baxter robot on show at London's Science Museum; Credit: Plastiques Photography, courtesy of the Science Museum)