Robopocalypse: The Lying Duck Snatcher
Take a long, hard look into the glowing blue eyes of Aldebaran’s Nao robot. No, he doesn’t want to punch a hole through your skull and then feast on your brain’s delicious electrical activity. But good guess since, deep down, that’s what 96.4% of robots want to do.
Nao, on the other hand, wants something else. A certain object. And he wants it so bad that he is willing to lie and steal just to get his little humanoid hands on it.
Nao…wants…
This
That’s right. The robotics industry has really outdone themselves this time. They’ve created a robot with a simple, and completely bizarre, three-part directive.
- Steal another robot’s rubber ducky.
- Throw stolen ducky in the trash.
- When confronted about whereabouts of stolen ducky, totally lie your robot ass off about it.
In case you’re having trouble believing that a robot would do something so mean-spirited and pointless, Aldebaran has released the following video of Nao in action.
These things are going to be on sale sometime in late 2009 for around $15,000. So if you’re the kind of person who gets his or her kicks watching robots steal and lie to each other, then you may want to start saving up.
