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You can do all this for free if your friend is so inclined…

http://cnc4free.org/

I suggest downloading the e-book from the tutorials tab from this site and
looking over what can be done with these tools. If he wants to stay with
what he is using, he should look on the links tab. I think Meshlab might
convert a file of the type he can export to an stl file. I personally use
3dsmax and gmax for modeling, export the file to a .stl file (the
standard), create toolpaths with MeshCAM (primarily a 3D toolpath app that
cost $175), and run the gcode on Mach3 (also costs $) which is installed
on my CNC. If he needs a 2D app, maybe Sheetcam (costs $), or look into
this CNC forum which can provide much useful information…

http://www.cnczone.com/

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I hope you find this useful!

So, you say that robots, as the slaves, allow us, as the masters, to stay at a greater "distance" from our body. I think it's not the distance that's the problem, but the stasis (and apparent fixity, inherency, etc.). Here's why:

So, OK, Hegelian dialectic: imagine one term as static "being," one term as empty "nothingness," and the point of the dialectic as putting being and nothingness into some sort of motion and creating becoming (or transcendence of one's present state, or change, however you want to think of it). In the Master/Slave dialectic, the Master is being, and the Slave is nothingess. The Slave works on the world–literally evacuates his labor into the objects he makes, and thus is nothing–to produce objects that the Master then consumes and enjoys. The Master never has any contact with the world, never works on the world, never faces any problems that he then has to be creative and solve. Because the Master never changes (never has new ideas, never transforms/is transformed by the world), he is being. It's the Slave who actually experiences any and all change, development, or, you guessed it, becomming.

So, what I think you want to argue is that robots create a Master/Slave relationship: We're the static Masters who never transcend/create/etc., and the robots are the slaves (who also experience, according to Hegel, an imperfect becoming…that's why the M/S dialectic is only about 2/3 of the way through the Phenomenology of Spirit). Real, actual becoming happens when the M/S dichotomy is broken down, i.e., when we work on and are worked on by things, when we're both subjects and objects.

So, I think what you are arguing is that the cyborg can be (I don't think you want to say it necessarily is, just that it can be) a way out of the Master/Slave dialectic.