This.
I care not for some fictional robot uprising but i care that authoritarian cops and military will use them against protesters, immigrants, minorities etc.
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All terrain wheelchairs could be great; these legs could be a solid starting point. 
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It’s a development platform - edcucation, research etc.
Think of it as a device that allows software to explore and interact with the environment.
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Adorbz!
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It’s a tiny ED209
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It speaks Emoji?
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The inevitable first words out of the mouth of some high-ranker involved in/with military acquisitions and contracts: “Can this be scaled up? If so, by how much?”
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If you could make them take the weight, they would be a great improvement to the Segway.
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These wheelchairs that can balance on 2 wheels and go up stairs actually pre-date the Segway. Made by the same inventor though.
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Four legs good.
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You have 20 seconds to comply
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I had the opposite reaction. I thought it was cute as a thumbnail image but then - Holy hell that thing is waist high! First thing that jumped into my head was
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Given what fuckwit techbros come up with as software today, there’s a lot of software I’d actively want to never interact with the environment. It does enough damage interacting with humans.
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It was a warm summer afternoon. They sat on the front porch eating ice cream,
watching the machines walk by.
The boy looked up at the man and asked “Dad, who makes all the robots?”
“The robots do,” the man said.
“Then who makes the robots who make the other robots?” asked the boy.
“Well, other robots, that’s the way it’s always been.”
“But where did the first robots come from?” demanded the boy.
The man took a bite of his cone and thought for a moment. “I don’t suppose I know.
Some think it was humans.”
“But Dad,” the boy said, “people don’t know how to make robots.”
“Yep.” the father replied.
It was a warm summer afternoon. They sat in silence on the front porch eating ice cream,
watching the machines walk by.
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Interacting with the environment.
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