Nurses are to be replaced by robots. No, really, it is not April Fool’s Day. It is going to happen in a hospital near you. Soon.

Nurses, those caring people who have pulled many a patient back from the brink with their expertise, brow-wiping and tender words, are likely to be replaced soon by yards of wiring, transistors, hydraulics, a motherboard and light-emitting diodes. Enter the Robo-nurse.

I'm surprised we're closer to making robot nurses before sex-droids. Maybe robotics developers are fetishists. Dirty old men will be disappointed.