BBC article here. This seems very cool and interesting, but then I got down to the name of the company developing this thing (about 2/3 into the story) and suddenly got a very very bad feeling about it. Because I realized this robot is supposed to give injured soldiers a hand...
-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.
This robot has a teddy-bear head.
what can go wrong?Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979
*just read company name*
oh no.
I, uh, for one, will welcome, uh, our evilly-cackling, bear-headed, automated overlords?Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979
What about the Head?
-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.
Fumomo fuffumo mofumo fumoffu. Fumo.
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."
Quote:
What about the Head?
I didn't imagine that the Head was a teddy-bear head. Now I'm going to have to be careful in the toy stores...
(Ah, yes - I actually read that
Important Safety Tip when it first came out, back in early December 1996.)
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012