Forget gays in the army, robots are next!
 

From the BBC,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6583893.stm
But then again:

Professor Sharkey, who worked in geriatric nursing in his youth, said he could envisage a future when it was "much cheaper to dump a lot of old people" in a large hospital, where they could be cared for by machines.