Rise of the Machines: Research Robot Deemed Too Scary for Kids

Gee, I wonder where they got the idea for this design?

So why did they design this robot?

My reaction if I ever meet that robot is going to be to look for a large hydraulic press to stuff it into!

Mom!

I don’t see how the robot is a test of how humans percieve robots in as much as it’s how to people percieve human skeletons that are animated. It’s not a represtation for which a human has no preconcieved reference. I would have banned it from being shown to kids also.

This experiment sounds familiar, but I can’t quite seem to place why.

<Austrian accent> Sarah Connor?</Austrian> :wink:

Or maybe they were planning to audition their bot for the part of YOU KNOW WHO in Sky One’s Hogfather ?

It doesn’t have a classically evil grin. It’s got the grin of someone who SPEAKS LIKE THIS and cannot help but grin. paging Susan StoHelit’s grandfather

is Hogfather on DVD?

Wikipedia says Easter 2007

Awwww… he’s sooooo cute…

I want one of those to answer the door to Mormons and salespeople.