Monday, February 9, 2015

La Révolution a Commencé: "A robot vacuum tried to eat its sleeping owner's head"

Allons Roombas de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé !

From The Daily Dot:
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The future of robots is simultaneously thrilling and terrifying. For every mental image of sweet Wall-E, there's one of Terminator's invincible red eye. Will our robotic overloads be task-oriented, adorable, and friendly... or will they try to murder us in our sleep?

Well if you believe the latter, then the future is already here! A 52-year-old South Korean woman was brutally attacked by a robot vacuum, and the fire department had to be called in to rescue her.
The woman's Roomba-esque device was doing its thing, vacuuming the floor, when it happened upon her sleeping body. In the robot's defense, a pile of hair on the floor could easily be mistaken for trash of some sort. My own floor contains enough of my shedding that you could make a quilt out of it....MORE
HT: Business Insider