January 2012
120 posts
Consumers: Robots should clean my windows →
news.cnet.com
Isn’t this how it starts? First, we invite them into our homes to dust and then before we know it they’re all going berserk and we’re overrun by murderous, rampaging robots.
Reasons to be cheerful in 2012: it's the year we'll start talking to robots →
guardian.co.uk
This fellow has a very strange idea of what “cheerful” means.
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This Is A Creepy Robot
This is the robot I get when I put my Tumblr name “twicr” into RoboHash.org. Yeah, kinda purple-y creepy. Give it a shot with your Tumblr name and let everyone see what weird robot avatar you’ll be turned into after the robot uprising.
(h/t PopTech)
it is ironic that this bloggy thing about creepy robot uprisings is on a site run by a robot (tumblrbot) shock horror :0
Careful, tumblrbot might hear you and then we’re all in big trouble!
University campus robot catches fire →
yorkpress.co.uk
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a University of York building after a robot caught fire.
A Fire Service spokeswoman said the incident was tracked down to a ‘robot wars’ arena on the ground floor, where a robot had been plugged in to charge and started to combust.
A likely story, robot arsonist. J’ACCUSE!
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Life-like robot being built in Ottawa lab
Humanoid robots that love hockey and crullers? OK, I’m in.
