Adorable Mini Cheetah robots tested

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After seeing the Black Mirror “Metalhead” episode, this is definitely terrifying.

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when someone figures out how to get teeth on the front of that thing we are all well and truly f*cked

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It’s the clicking sounds.

JHC somebody get some WD-40 for those things.

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Sleigh bells. Eight of them will be pulling RoboClaus’ sleigh.

Now… Have you been naughty, or nice?

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I, for one, welcome the obligation to devise a proper collective noun.

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No worries, just call Sam Slade. He’ll take care of any Robo problem.

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Unfortunately, “a murder” is already taken.

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Yeesh… more of a spider cricket than a cheetah… gives me the willies.

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A multiplex of robots? Can be shortened to a mux of robots pretty well too.

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“Who’s a good cuddly-wuddly little murder wobot? You are! Yes you are!”

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Thanks to Charlie Brooker I see nothing cute about this.

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A Beowulf Cluster of…

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we need:

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Sounds more like an automated movie theatre.

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Slightly larger models, with chainsaws and nets, will be used by Soylent Corp. as protein harvesters.

Stay of the streets near the end of the month, when the factories need extra input to make quota.

There are only so many squirrels and feral cats left.

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