# Those evil-natured robots, they're programmed to destroy us **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213 "2007-10-18T19:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/1 "2007-10-18T19:46:43Z")
[Roomba-Maker Unveils Kill-Bot](http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/roomba-maker-un.html?cid=86860786#comment-86860786) > [@](#): > > The makers of the cuter-than-cute robotic vacuum cleaner are rolling out a new machine: A big, fast-moving, semi-autonomous 'bot capable of killing a whole bunch of people at once. > > Early versions of the iRobot Warrior X700 “are slated to be ready by the second half of next year,” according to Army Times’ Kris Osborn. And unlike previous offerings from iRobot – which tended to be on the light, bordering-on-flimsy side – the Warrior will weigh up to 250 pounds. It’ll be able to lug a 500-pound payload, and carry 150 pounds with a newly muscular arm. Which will mean the machine is more than buff enough to pack heat. > > “We’re looking at urban warfare… It can be deploying weapons systems. It can be doing re-supply operations, taking ammo or water to troops who are pinned down, perimeter security and building clearing,” Helen Greiner, iRobot chairman and co-founder, tells Army Times. So much for the Three Laws of Robotics. Now 'scuse me while I try to pull the battery out of my Roomba. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/2 "2007-10-18T20:21:50Z")
Does anyone know how to build a DIY EMP? ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/3 "2007-10-18T20:29:44Z")
How long before someone develops a virus for those things? Because I want to be far far away when that happens ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/4 "2007-10-18T20:29:59Z")
[Read it! Learn it! Live (through) it!](http://www.amazon.com/How-Survive-Robot-Uprising-Defending/dp/1582345929) ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/5 "2007-10-18T20:30:53Z")
ahh crap man, I let my Old Glory insurance expire too. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/6 "2007-10-18T20:33:48Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] Does anyone know how to build a DIY EMP? [/QUOTE] [Here you go](http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/ka_fucking_boom/164724.html). However, I see problems with their shopping list. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/7 "2007-10-18T20:34:19Z")
[Robots have already started to kill people](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/weapons/robot-cannon-goes-berserk-kills-9-312443.php). (Nine people, in fact.) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/8 "2007-10-18T20:34:36Z")
It’s hard out here for a robot. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/9 "2007-10-18T20:39:18Z")
It looks like it will be getting hard out there for people. I wonder if we can get the robots to build the EMP’s for us? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/10 "2007-10-18T20:39:52Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] [Robots have already started to kill people](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/weapons/robot-cannon-goes-berserk-kills-9-312443.php). (Nine people, in fact.) [/QUOTE] Where’s [Yoshimi](http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/futuresoundtrackforamerica/yoshimibattlesthepinkrobots.htm) when we need her? ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/11 "2007-10-18T20:40:47Z")
She is too busy takin’ lotsa vitamins. ---
**Author:** ![recessiveMeme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@recessiveMeme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/recessiveMeme)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/12 "2007-10-18T20:43:21Z")
[QUOTE=wolfman] ahh crap man, I let my Old Glory insurance expire too. [/quote] But Old Glory covers anyone over the age of 50 against Robot attack, regardless of current health. As you are no doubt aware, Robots are everywhere and when they grab you with those metal claws, you can’t break free… because they’re made of metal, and robots are strong. WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/13 "2007-10-18T20:49:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Where’s Yoshimi when we need her? Or Magnus > **[Magnus, Robot Fighter](http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/magrbt.htm)** > **[Magnus, Robot Fighter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus,_Robot_Fighter)** > > Magnus, Robot Fighter is a fictional superhero who battles rogue robots in the year 4000, appearing in comic books created by writer/artist Russ Manning in 1963. Magnus first appeared in Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D. #1, published by Gold Key Comics in February 1963. The character was subsequently published by Valiant Comics and Acclaim Comics in the 1990s, and was reintroduced by Dark Horse Comics in August 2010. Some aspects of the concept have varied with each publisher. By the year 4000, hum... This scenario has been in a lot of fiction – Philip K. Dick’s “Second Variety”, Harry Harrison’s “War Against the Robots” – but nobody predicted it would start with housecleaning robots. Except maybe Chuck Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/14 "2007-10-18T21:06:49Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Or Magnus [/QUOTE] Or [Megas](http://www.cartoon-secrets.com/Photos/Megas-XLR.jpg). [QUOTE=CalMeacham] but nobody predicted it would start with housecleaning robots. Except maybe Chuck Jones. [/QUOTE] There was an episode of the short lived and underwatched **Stroker and Hoop** that featured the products of a Ronco like company going on a murderous binge. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/15 "2007-10-18T21:07:26Z")
I actually makes sens this way. To keep a perfectly tidy world, the robots eradicate the humans. I’m sure I have read this somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/16 "2007-10-18T21:22:28Z")
**iRobot** _a subsidiary of_ Cyberdyne Systems ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/17 "2007-10-18T22:10:11Z")
Finally! A worthy adversary! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/18 "2007-10-18T22:34:28Z")
Oh, Astro Boy! HOW COULD YOU? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-evil-natured-robots-theyre-programmed-to-destroy-us/423213/19 "2007-10-18T23:44:49Z")
You’ll get my Roomba when you pry it from my cold… oh, wait. Right, if you guys get taken out by your Roombas, it’s your own damned fault for buying the gun mount option. I knew better!