Don't Talk To Robots

Some important PSA's from the future:


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New Robots Give "March Of The Penguins" A More Ominous Tone...

These new German-built robot penguins are cute, yes. But imagine millions of them patrolling the world's oceans.



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Learning To Crawl

Scientists in (where else?) Japan have created an oversized robot baby. It's kind of cute, in a terrifying sort of way. It learns to mimic human emotions, and has taught itself to walk, among other things. Other milestones the robot has to look forward to: learning to drive, senior prom, bringing mankind to its knees.


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Automated Assets

This brief short film goes a long way to put a human face on a particular class of robot that generally gets a bad rap:

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The human-robot culture gap is lessened just a little, and we're all better for it.

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