News of K-Bot, an android prototype with a wide range of facial capabilities, made me realize that we will soon see robotic news anchors delivering news 24 hours a day.  At first, novelty will encourage some underdog news organizations — like that crazy Russian newstation with stripping news anchor — to experiment with bots as talking heads.  Voice and face expression hints can be provided by a cheap 'reader'.  Ultimately, it will be cost saving.  Why pay big bucks to hire wrinkly Barbara Walters when you can buy a sexiest looking custom-made-in-Hollywood android news anchors for Barbara's one month salary?  If audience gets bored, just order a new one.

Come to think of it, why do we need robots anyway when we can use computer generated graphics in realtime?  You can even use famous heads like Julia Roberts or Michael Jackson.  I want the Three Stooges co-anchoring my 6 o'clock news.  Bush can do the weather and make akward jokes.