Could these be the funkiest geeks since Kraftwerk?

God I love these guys.

Mainstream reporters don’t always get robot stories right. There’s a real tendency to anthropomorphize anything with eyes or legs. Some researchers — imagine! — take advantage of that, even when there’s nothing more intelligent going on then your average spambot. Here’s a refreshing departure from the NYT:

As she fiddled with the computer that runs the robot, I smiled politely — almost as much for the robot’s sake, I realized, as for the robot maker’s — and thought: Well, maybe it is the camera sensor, but if this thing wails “You are too far away” one more time, I’m going to throttle it.

It’s a long article, but worth it if nothing else for the penultimate graf.

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This happened to me once.
It was terrifying.
Damn robot ran right through the red light.