[UA] ... and ... mechanomancy?

[Chris Cooper]

--- Magnus Lie Hetland <magnus at hetland.org> wrote:

> Sort of creepy-looking robot:

This should be in the THS list as well but its more
UA...

Y'know I find the creep isn't that it has four legs.
Nosirree, I find these creepy because they do not move
like robots, they move like any normal animal. The
fact that the machine has no head and moves like it
should, is creepy.

I noticed this a few years when I saw a news show on a
Japanese Tech Expo and there was a women on, steering
a huge walking chair on two legs.

Although controlled by the lazy but cute couch potato,
the mecha-lazyboy kept doing this jiggling,
warm-up-my-legs dance to keep balance.

When I saw this my immediate reaction was someone had
stitched a comfy chair to the bottom half of a corpse
and cast Animate Dead on it.

Chris, sowing seeds of robophobia.



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