On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Tao Neuendorffer Flaherty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neuendorffer@googlemail.com">neuendorffer@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I have been watching prototype robots and taking robotics classes for almost two decades. Lots of robots, lots of failure, lots of discovery, no injury. Until I was watching Hackers at Noisebridge, and a robot came zooming out of the other room, hit me hard, and swung it's arm to hit me again. I screamed. It was not a good part of the movie for excruciating pain, or the realization that I could be dead if it had come a little to the left and hit my neck instead of my shoulder. I kept watching the movie, insulted at the interruption. Nobody came to apologize to me.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Unacceptable! And I really wanted to write this up in the Zip Crime Blotter, but you didn't reply to Whimzy's questionnaire (unless we missed it), and now the issue is full......but for issue 2 of our megazine we're going to do a full investigative report on robot-human relations, with a special focus on (unreported) violence.<br>
<br>ZiP02's due date is April 1st.<br><br>That's not a joke!<br><br><br>TLongshanksLT<br></div></div>