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

[Angus Fletcher]

Noone would go dancing with ishiro, so he built a samba machine.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/07/robots.ballroom/

On 6/21/06, Chris Cooper <insectking at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Magnus Lie Hetland <magnus at hetland.org> wrote:
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> > Sort of creepy-looking robot:
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> This should be in the THS list as well but its more
> UA...
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> 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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