Oh, sure, people scrap hundreds of robots every day and nobody says a thing. But you kill just one human…
I was taking my grandmother to her weekly bingo game at church before going to my volunteer job for Meals on Wheels. Yeah, ask anybody.
Where’s Will Smith when we need him?
“Come with me if you want to live…”
Spelling Jada with an “O”…
Just a probing mission. They are watching us to gauge our response.
If someone programmed them with the phrase “take a chance” ------------
Now that could be so obscure a reference that even here no-one will get it
So that they will crush, maim, slaughter and generally exterminate people while belting ABBA tunes at maximum volume?
You monster!
But once the obstacle had jumped out of the way, not stopping is the correct thing to do. Had it stopped when nothing was there, *then *we’d know there was a programming fault.
Nope – even more obscure than that. But I will admit to liking your explanation just as much as the correct one.
“Space: Above and Beyond”. Just in case anyone else was curious.
see? this is how a real robot kill in real life. not just throw a person around.
The man probably was asking for it, by wearing skimpy outfits that contained excessive metal ornaments.
“I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.”
There’s a video out there of a Volvo executive standing in front of one of their prototype cars, to demonstrate how the car will stop if it senses someone in the way. Only it didn’t stop. :eek: Fortunately, it looked like the car was driving pretty slowly, so the guy was probably OK.
They say this was human error … yeah, the human error of getting within reach of a fuckin’ homicidal robot. 
They’re all homicidal. I’m sure your Roomba vacuum cleaner looks harmless enough. But just wait until it decides to smother you in your sleep.
It’s actually cats riding the Roomba doing the smothering. Cats are in on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4XB2wZqF4 (youtube - cats riding roombas)
No, it’s the Roombas that are pissed off because they’re being used to transport cats. You try doing your job with a creature that weighs more than you do on your back all day and see how you feel. You’d be homicidal too.
More signs of the coming Skynet. The robots are going to battle each other - suuuuurrre!
Last week, American company MegaBots Inc. issued an audacious challenge to Japan’s Suidobashi Heavy Industry, makers of the massive Kuratas robots.
“Suidobashi, we have a giant robot. You have a giant robot. You know what needs to happen,” Megabots’ Matt Oherlein said in a YouTube video. “We challenge you to a duel. Prepare yourselves and name the battlefield. In one year, we fight.”
The video featured Oherlein donning an American flag as a cape and showing off his company’s 12,000-pound Mk. II robot with a paintball cannon capable of shooting 3-pound paintballs at 100 mph.
Sunday, Suidobashi released its own video, accepting the challenge – and upping the ante.
CEO and creator Kogoro Kurata – wearing a Japanese flag cape, of course – responded, “Yeah, I’ll fight. Absolutely. But you know what we really need? Melee combat.”
Not sure teaching robots to use swords is a good idea.
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-katana-wielding-robot-battle-human-samurai-sword-master
These damn clever robots, they’ve they’ve enticed us into arming a soldier class of robot and giving it the authority to shoot at its own discretion.
We’re DOOMED!
Sounds like the beginning of Christine. There’s definitely a supernatural VW making it’s way to the showroom now.