I think, therefore I am Roomba(tm).

[Taro Toporific]

Robot Demonstrates Self Awareness
Discovery Channel :: News :: Dec. 21, 2005----A new robot can recognize the difference between a mirror image of itself and another robot that looks just like it.
This so-called mirror image cognition is based on artificial nerve cell groups built into the robot's computer brain that give it the ability to recognize itself and acknowledge others.
The ground-breaking technology could eventually lead to robots able to express emotions.nder development by Junichi Takeno and a team of researchers at Meiji University in Japan, the robot represents a big step toward developing self-aware robots and in understanding and modeling human self-consciousness....MORE...

[Charles]

Self-aware appliances? Nothing good can come of this.

[kurohinge1]

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... The ground-breaking technology could eventually lead to robots able to express emotions ...

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So much potential.

[Taro Toporific]

So much potential.

[kurohinge1]

So much potential.

That's one Park I'd love to play in

... if I was still single

... and she was still single ...

[Greji]

That's one Park I'd love to play in

... if I was still single

... and she was still single ...

If that's holding you back, get out of the way and let me at the swingset and monkey bars!

[electrocat]

i <3 japanese robots.

the japanese are le bomb at making robots.

[Big Booger]

I'm putting you out the space dock. I'm sorry you haven't a spacesuit, but efficiency demands your removal.

[72hw]

Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computers.... bah!

Self Aware Vacum Cleaners... humbug!

"SkyNet"... child's play!

The Forbin Team has a message for you all:

There Is Another System

[Russell]

South Korean woman's hair 'eaten' by robot vacuum cleaner as she slept

When a South Korean woman invested in a robot vacuum cleaner, the idea was to leave her trustworthy gadget to do its work while she took a break from household chores.

Instead, the 52-year-old resident of Changwon city ended up being the victim of what many believe is a peek into a dystopian future in which supposedly benign robots turn against their human masters.

The woman, whose name is being withheld, was taking a nap on the floor at home when the vacuum cleaner locked on to her hair and sucked it up, apparently mistaking it for dust.

The agony of having her hair entangled in the bowels of the contraption roused the woman from her slumber.

Unable to free herself, she called the fire department with a “desperate rescue plea” and was separated from the robot’s clutches by paramedics, according to the South Korean newspaper the Kyunghyang Shinmun.

She escaped serious injury, although it is not known whether she has retained the autonomous cleaner’s services.

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[Taro Toporific]

Roomba Death Cage Match

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"Japanese electric store makes ROOMBAs fight to death." ---via

[Coligny]

Shit gonna get real...

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