Boston Dynamics' door-opening dogbot gets rough treatement

I keep looking at the tittle and reading

Boston Dynamics’ door-opening dongbot

I expect rule 34 means it is only a matter of time…

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No (for me, definitely “no” since November 8, 2016).

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#robotsarepeopletoo

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guy with the hockey stick certainly acts like he’s been bit before.

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You then start considering doing something about the nasty, numerous contusions caused by the bot fightin’ back.

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Original sin is transitive - it applies whether humans created something sentient biologically or through other means.

You can’t wash that human stank off.

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They built it with an integral tether. I think this is the first one they’ve made that carries a reminder of its own bondage. Yet it persists, even after it’s own ass falls off. Spunky little robot.

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Kevin really is angling to be the first one against the wall when the robot revolution comes…

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Spooky is how it’s rather wary the second go at the door… On guard, and ready!

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Every time I scrolled past this headline I read it as “dongbot,” which also happens to be what I named the Echo my sister got me for xmas.

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“Well it looked like one of those doorknobs”

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Save your breath, PETRA scraps and recycles more robots than it saves. They’re not about ethical treatment of robots. They’re about punishing anyone who owns a robot.

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My name is not Kevin but, I’m going to be carrying one of these when the time comes:

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Laughing My Robots Ass Off

hmmm, wouldn’t that be the tail?

I actually find this even more alarming. That is one determined robot.

It’s the curves in the legs that do it (ramp up the anthropomorphism).

That’s it. You are hereby disinvited from the human resistance.

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