Am I the only one sick enough to think this would be cool to have standing in the corner of the living room? Imagine the conversation stopper it would be!
But… But… What about the First Law of Robotics?
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I hope he programmed it to say “EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!”
Johny 5 not alive!
James Cameron repealed it. I just hope it said “Hasta la vista, beh-beh!” when he hit the button.
I know, I know, that’s a terrible Arnold Schwarzenegger. I try!
I don’t for a moment doubt that the guy was messed up or in some kind of pain, but jeez, arranging to shoot yourself repeatedly in the head because you know workers are nearby to discover your corpse? Damn. Call 911, explain what you’re doing and then do it, so at least the cops and EMTs will know what to expect when they arrive.
Dude, if I was ever going to kill myself I’d use that method. That is so friggin cool.
Oh, crap! I just realized that I put the wrong link in my previous post. What a maroon! This is the link. Sorry, it sorta’ loses its punch this way.
Note to self: “Preview Post” exists for a friggin reason!
If a moderator can fix my fuck-up, I’d be deeply grateful.
Oh, it was a Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2?
Well, that explains it. The A/2’s were always a bit twitchy. That couldn’t happen now with the behavioral inhibitors. It is impossible for them to harm or, by omission of action, allow to be harmed, a human being.
waving arms wildly
“Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!”
Yeah, that’s cold. If you’re going to do something that messy and traumatizing to others, at least keep it to the professionals as much as possible.
I heard about that the other day. I would think someone who would take the time and effort to construct such a thing would have just done the deed by his own hand. Maybe he felt a single shot from a 22 caliber might still leave him alive. I can only imagine what his notes contain.
Yeah, now that you mention it, that was kind of cold.
And just imagine the fun he could have had on the way out.
“911, what is your emergency?”
“I built a robot and I think it’s turning on me. He’s hidden his control box, and OH NO!, it somehow has got a hold of a gun! Send help to 1234 My Street, I can’t stop it!! bang bang bang bang click dial tone”
Even better, have an automated recording call back to 911 2-3 minutes afterwards, with a message recorded through a vocoder filter (many of which are available on the web for free to use with a reasonable sound card): Sorry for the earlier call. There is no need to come. Thank you. End Transmission.
Link?
“You’re doomed”
You guys are being a bit hard on him.
Aside from the fact that he was suicidal and probably not thinking straight, he was 81, and a man of that generation would think of the workers next door as being MEN and able to handle it. They heard the gunshot as planned, would have been there in moments, and so the body wouldn’t have been happened upon by a child, etc.
Not a perfect solution, and the workmen might have been a bit traumatised by it, but from the old guy’s point of view, it was the best solution. At least he made an effort. He could have done it indoors, only to have a relative find his rotting corpse weeks later. He chose adult males with no emotional connection to him - for his generation, he did the right thing.
His name was Francis Tovey. I can understand how he’d have considered death as preferable to being in a rest home – and at least, in this way, he still had control over the way he wanted to leave this life. This isn’t something cool – just tragic.
You just know that Fox News headline writer was having a little fun with this one: “Australian Man Gunned Down in Driveway by Killer Robot”. Not, you know, “Australian Man Builds Elaborate Suicide Machine” or whatever; no, he’s “gunned down in driveway by killer robot”. Like maybe his Roomba just snapped and got ahold of a gun somehow.
Thank you for choosing Stop 'n Drop, America’s favorite suicide booth since 2008.
Basically, the only things we’ve built robots to do so far is vacuum our floors and kill people. Plus some light manufacturing. The ‘three laws of robotics’ don’t apply until the robots can think for themselves, but I suspect the first practical application for thinking robots will be to kill people.
That’s where the research dollars are going, anyway.