Will Smith figures robots will take over many domestic and menial tasks for humans. He just doesn't expect them to look much like his humanoidlike machine co-stars in the new film "I, Robot."
Smith, 35, plays a detective in 2035 who suspects a robot has murdered the reclusive scientist responsible for technological innovations that have populated the world with machine servants vaguely resembling humans.
In real life, though, humans have a psychological barrier against machines that look like themselves, Smith said.
"Technology is heading away from that, because people don't respond well to human-looking robots, especially if they're over 4 feet," Smith told The Associated Press in an interview last week promoting "I, Robot."
"Humankind, we don't react well to the idea that there's somebody bigger than us that thinks on their own."