Robots ready to walk, run and fly their way into Brisbane News. Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro with robot clone. Ishiguro has brought the geminoid robot to Brisbane as part of 'Robotronics' at QUT. Photography David Kelly Source: News Limited Brisbane is set to be invaded by a variety of flying, walking, gliding and talking robots from all over the world. Queensland University of Technology will host Robotronica, a free day of talks, demonstrations and workshops celebrating the mechanical marvels, at its Gardens Point campus in Brisbane CBD on Sunday. They include 30 flying robots that dance in formation from Austria, the statuesque, interactive Diamandini robot, and Geminoid, a startlingly lifelike robot 'clone' of creator Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro. The roboprof, brought to Australia for the first time, will give a lecture while controlled remotely by Prof Ishiguro from Japan. Prof Ishiguro told The Courier-Mail his human-like creation was a glimpse of the future, with robots likely to play an increasing role in our everyday lives. "Everything is already going more human-like, especially in Japan," he said. For example the rice cooker will speak to you to tell you the rice is cooked or the dishwasher will tell you the dishes are clean. But Prof Ishiguro, whose creation mirrors small human movements, for example blinking or moving its head, said there was nothing to fear from robots. "Sometimes the robot is seen as an enemy of the people but actually it is just scientific fiction," he said.