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Monday, 19 May 2008

Your Plastic Survivor Buddy Who's Fun To Be With

Professor Robin Murphy from the University of South Florida is working on "Survivor Buddy"; a robot that is intended to act as a friendly companion to to disaster victims and try to cheer them up until help arrives.

Given the track record of allegedly user-friendly technology and that when I'm trapped in the ruins of a flooding building while the waters are cresting my lower lip that last thing I want is to be stimulated, reassured or enlightened by a hunk of animated tin, I shan't be surprised when the suicide rate among disaster victims skyrockets.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousMonday, 19 May 2008 at 17:46:00 GMT-7

    Sounds more like those annoying doors on the Heart of Gold rather than Marvin.
    And I mean the BBC version, not that stupid movie

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