So this news pops up today about a man killed by a robot. It was a robot he built himself for the purpose of killing him, a kind of suicide bot. So I jokingly thought "it begins...." but then I did a bit of googling and discovered that robots have been killing humans for a little while now. The first human killed by a robot is generally thought to be Robert Williams, a man who worked in an auto plant and was murdered by a one ton robot. And last October there was this report of a robotic anti-aircraft gun "malfunctioning." That malfunction killed 9 and injured 14 and is probably the most terrifying incident of robot on human violence. The robot pictured alongside this article is not a movie prop but is an actual piece or ordnance patrolling the streets of Iraq today.
It begins...
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You didn't mention the robotic uprising of the late 1990's...
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