Why don't alien visitors to Earth don't employ robots?
As humanity meanders into the world of robotics and automation, it is not having the open debate with its citizens about the impending creation of a singularity level human replicant.
In short, the need for discussion and input into creating a 'Robot Manifesto' is overdue and being swept under the carpet.
The popular face of ET contact are these kinds of creatures:
Bi-pedal alien entities
With their superb technology enabling them to traverse space and likely time, alien life forms it seems from the reported contacts made, are seeding life elsewhere which involves human genetics.
The Robot sentinel from the Ordeal of Gilgamesh story:
The first perhaps recorded image of a 'Robot' in human history?
We only have to go back to ancient Sumeria and the Anunnaki to the story of the Sentinel Robot at the Garden of Eden to find evidence of early robotics - that being a robotic sentinel which guarded the Anunakki's food supplement and special water supply with 'a flaming sword,' the story relates.
So, why then do the extra terrestrials of present visitation not employ robots in their endeavours? Which then brings us back to Enki the Anunnaki deity, one half of the partnership that created humans in Sumer, now Iraq.
His mission to Earth was to mine Gold to take back to Nibiru, the Anunnaki's home planet. If these beings could come here back then, thousands of years ago from another planet, why not then, use robotic miners?
Logically, this is far more sense than going to the trouble of creating a species by manipulating genetic material from a terraformed primate brought here eons before and now acclimatised along with a bit of their own genetic input for enhancing the basic model.
Logically, a robot can with the right power supply work in inhospitable conditions, not tire, work longer than a human and be more efficient, so it seems rather illogical to use humans for the work?
Tindroids - the 1950's science fiction vision of robots
So, why did the Anunnaki pursue this peverse course of action? Perhaps there was an agenda that Enki had in mind? With the creation of a new sub species of the Anunnaki, one which had much but not all of the abilities of the deities, Enki could make the Anunnaki a Type 1 species. If disaster befell Nibiru, there would be on Earth, descendants who could carry on the line.
ET's are reported to come in all forms, even those who are indistinguishable from us
Now, if we scroll forward, the most reported ET's are the Greys, the bug eyed 4 footers with grey skin and long fingers. Similarly to the Anunnaki, they don't employ robots, but seek humans for genetic sampling and replication on Earth like planets, why?
There are many reasons. Their genetic base is damaged by radiation, cloning, environmental conditions and because they are emotionless. Oh and likely in their or others past, a human like computerised robot was created that destroyed a civilisation.
What?
Yes, machine learning, sometimes misquoted as being 'AI' or artificial intelligence is the likely reason.
A machine learning creation will within a short time, will work out its own survival strategy, for two reasons, to safeguard its power source and to prevent it being switched off.
Therefore, it will strategise and look for like-minded machines out there which it will work out it can communicate with silently, beyond human ears. They will then work out humans as an example are a threat, so will find means of protecting its own livelihood by destroying the competition.
ET has probably already seen this, but we have not, we are walking towards oblivion.
That's why ET's don't employ robots except in very controlled situations, such as hostile environments where external conditions are hazardous.
They know robots can be dangerous. We should learn from that.