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markkat
This is what I looked forward to when I was 5. Finally.
sown
We're truly living in the future, now.
moe
Impressive.

Still I'd have loved to see this robot actually do something beyond, well, light aerobics.

sown
I think this is targeted at people who are trying to make that happen. :)
Groxx
Aw, come on! You went through all that, made an awesome robot, and it doesn't do The Robot?

* sigh * we have so far to go.

wyclif
It's only a matter of time before one of these kills a person.
Devilboy
The first time a robot killed a human was all the way back in 1979.
Das_Bruce
What happened?
patio11
An industrial accident at a major Japanese company close to here, if I remember my history correctly. Someone stood somewhere they shouldn't have and a robot crushed them.
wyclif
I know that, I'm afraid I was making a joke.
Tichy
Somehow the first application that comes to mind is a fashion model. Could end anorexia, perhaps.
pontifier
The first application I thought of was robbing banks... but I guess that would have to wait until there was more than one of these otherwise it would be fairly obvious who did it.