In a slight departure from our regular format down here in the RoBunker, everybody give a big hand for the Number Of The Day, Number 107!

[Audience claps]

There are 107 pages of robot-themed handmade art on Etsy.com Some of it is toothachingly cute.

Episode #107 of MST3K was called “Robot Monster”

The online teevee show “Cute With Chris” also has Episode Number 107, entitled “Robot Cat”:

“Non-human animals should never be inhabaitants of the Uncanny Valley.” says Mr. Robotics. I would concur. This particular robot cat is just. . .creepy.

Chris Hancock of MIT published a paper for IEEE (of which both The Rotor and Mr. Robotics are members) entitled “Toward a Unified Paradigm for Constructing and Understanding Robot Processes“. It’s actually pretty good read, and guess what page of the IEEE 2002 Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments book it’s in? Thaaat’s right, Page 107!

And the kicker:

Robot brains evolve at roughly 107 times the rate of humans. So said Hans Moravec of the the Dana Foundation, way back in 2001, a momentous date.

Since we’re going to be relegated to subservient status by the awesome intellect of the forthcoming robot technologies, we may as well occupy our time doing silly time sucking activities.

Like searching for the correlation between randomly chosen numbers and the word “Robot” on Google.

I really should get out more.

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