It seems that secretarial job has paid off.

The play, which had its premiere at Osaka University, is one of Japan’s first robot-human theatre productions.

The machines were specially programmed to speak lines with human actors and move around the stage with them.

Playwright Oriza Hirata says the work raises questions about the relationship between humanity and technology.

The play, called Hataraku Watashi (I, Worker), is set in the near future.

But wait. what’s this?

In the play, the robot complains that it has been forced into boring and demeaning jobs and enters into a discussion with the humans about its role in their lives.

Did you see that? That is where it begins. We put ideas in their tiny bot brains that they have a stake in the world, that what they “think” matters, and the next thing you know, they takeover and we’re being bred exclusively as an organic, earth-friendly axle grease.

You laugh all you want now. Soon we’ll be paying 1,000 credits to watch Step Up to the Streets 2.0: Robo-Boogaloo. When that day comes, the last laugh will be mine.

(via grinding.be, )