They just need to equip it with network link to Northern Trust to wire-transfer multi-million dollar paychecks and a random management-bullsh*t-speak generator, then program it to be an arrogant, bullying a*hole to suppliers and employees.

Perhaps they should hire Donald Trump, Gordon Ramsay and most of the Bush Administration as consultants.

I hope Asimo turns out to be a nice guy when be becomes intelligent enough to enslave us all.

That was my thought exactly, too. Some of the suburbs are very nice, but Detroit (Rock City) is a hellhole of the first order.

# I think the younger generation watched too much
# TV/movies/DVDs.

#Ever read “I, Robot” ? I’m 27, and it was written #way before “our” time.

I’m 39, and “I, Robot” was written way before ‘my’ time too. (Off-topic: cool books.)

I suppose that I ‘trust’ robots as long as I can think of them as appliances: reliable, not obscenely complex, and incapable of doing anything truly dangerous except maybe catching fire. Like my Roombs, which my kids affectionately call ‘The Little Droid.’

But I can’t trust computers when I have to think of robots as Windows-based computers (MTBF measured in hours) or when they start being capable of causing serious physical damage.

Would YOU trust a self-driving car made by the Big 2.8, and ‘Powered By Microsoft?’ I’d run screaming.

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Didn’t mean I took away from it, that robots would be the ruination of mankind, though! It was – um – fiction!

I’d LOVE to live long enough to have a household robot. Not just a robotized box vacuum or mopper or lawnmower or guttercleaner or poolcleaner.

Maybe I watched too much Jetsons and Lost in Space when I was a kid, eh?

It was a hoot.

As to Asimo, he’s(?) cool.

In a creepy sort of way.

I think Detroit has seen too much to give a damn about a Japanese robot playing “semi-conductor”

Detroit has social elites?? Is that, like, the most successful drug dealers and prostitutes?

Nice Kevin, did you know Oakland County Michigan ranks among the highest per capita income in the Country, at one point I believe it was at or near the top. Ever been to Grosse Pointe, Bloomfield Hills? Didnt think so. Where do you live? I am guessing it woundnt compare to the aforementioned Detroit Suburbs.

It doesn’t sound that hard really. It would have to accomplish the following tasks:

1. Collect fat checks
2. Maintain hostile relations with suppliers
3. Spout random bluster (which never needs to prove true)

It could be like the retard brother of Skynet…

Curious though, I always thought the Joker plotted to take over Gotham?

Ever read “I, Robot” ? I’m 27, and it was written way before “our” time.

Detroit has social elites?? Is that, like, the most successful drug dealers and prostitutes?

Critic Mark Stryker’s corresponding article in the FreeP notes that Toyota is making robots that will play trumpet and violin. Perhaps it’s the next step up from assembling cars and engines….

Interestingly enough, my 25 year old son is “terrified” of the prospect of robots. People my are, are not, apparently.

He was speechless when I told him I’d bought his mom two robots for the house (scooba and roomba) and (I think he was serious) said “those things are going to take over and kill us all.”

I think the younger generation watched too much TV/movies/DVDs.