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World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say
(Thanks to Alan West, pharmaross, B&C and The Perts)
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As I introduce this, I realize it can go downhill fast.
Robot Pick up Lines
"Is that a joystick in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"
"Wanna share programs?"
"I'm just looking for a one-night compile, not a commitment."
Posted by: MOTW | November 30, 2021 at 09:16 AM
^ "I'd like to take a vacation in your uncanny valley."
"Care to hear the clank-clank of little feet?"
"Forgive me in advance if I yell out Will Robinson's name by mistake."
Posted by: AmoebaStampede | November 30, 2021 at 09:35 AM
CNN at least could have had the decency to run those scientists obituaries along with this article.
Posted by: Rod Nunley | November 30, 2021 at 09:36 AM
So now, even the robots are getting more action than the nerds who build them? What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Rumba D. Roomba | November 30, 2021 at 09:45 AM
Just another sales opportunity for Hallmark.
Posted by: Clankie | November 30, 2021 at 09:56 AM
Isaac Asimov wrote a novel about sentient robots causing problems. Maybe the scientists could have at least watched the movie that might explain best why we should require our budding mad scientists to undergo psychiatric evaluations before being allowed to build and program robots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dlo-VB0-HI
Posted by: Le Petomane | November 30, 2021 at 10:04 AM
"Not tonight, dear -- I have a gearbox-ache."
Posted by: wanderer2575 | November 30, 2021 at 10:07 AM
Those 'robots' look like they fell off of a coffee cake.
Posted by: Name withheld to protect you | November 30, 2021 at 10:09 AM
Add this to the List of Activities That Cry Out For Adult Supervision.
Posted by: ripleysparrow | November 30, 2021 at 10:10 AM
@ripleysparrow--I assume you are referring to the mad scientists that are in need of adult supervision.
Posted by: Flathead County Frank | November 30, 2021 at 10:35 AM
If you look carefully, over in one corner of the petri dish, this is going on.
Posted by: man tom | November 30, 2021 at 11:37 AM
I can still remember the good 'ol days, when we all took solace in the belief of a brighter future where there were no robots because the people who BUILT them didn't reproduce. Sadly, it looks like those hopes are being dashed.
Posted by: Ludd Dytte | November 30, 2021 at 12:16 PM
So is an unfaithful robot booted or rebooted?
Posted by: Jim | November 30, 2021 at 01:13 PM
𝅘𝅥𝅮 If you start me up. If you start me up, I'll never stop. 𝅘𝅥𝅮
Posted by: iRobot | November 30, 2021 at 03:28 PM
Flathead County Frank - I understand your first wife told you, "until we get married, you can't even talk about having sex." Then after you married her she says, "now you can talk about having sex all you want, but we ain't having any."
Posted by: man tom | November 30, 2021 at 05:40 PM
man tom--You must have dated her too?
Posted by: Flathead County Frank | November 30, 2021 at 06:10 PM
Anybody else see the picture and think, "Fried Shrimp"?
Posted by: Evil Mr M | December 01, 2021 at 01:37 PM