Robot overlord auditions for builder part in the Village People

Say hello to the HRP-3 Promet Mk-II. Its designers assure us that its a "Blue Collar Robot" designed to work all day on the construction site and other locations hazardous to us weakling meatbags. This is all well and good but why make it look so evil? I just cant picture the guys on the construction site offering Promet a cup of weak but sugary tea during a break. If i saw this 'bot climbing up the scaffolding towards me I'd assume he was coming to kill me, not to give me a hand.

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Robot overlords climb up the Japanese career ladder

News today that Mitsubishi has sold 10 of its Wakamaru robots to a Japanese temping agency for work as receptionists across the Tokai area of Japan. These little bots stand a metre tall and can converse and sing with visitors.

This move shows use of a new tactic from our future robot overlords, instead of the classic "replace high ranking officials with robotic doppelgangers" the 'bots are now trying to work there way up from the bottom. Their inherent lack of laziness and the fact that they wont call in sick, ever, means time might be up for our esteemed receptionist brothers and sisters.

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Stare into the eyes of your future robot overlord!

You have to question the people behind this would be enslaver of humanity. Apparently its designed to show visitors round a vinegar factory or conduct an orchestra. Its use purpose is clearly none of those. Its obvious that it was designed and built to strike fear into humans souls, oh, and maybe to act as some sort of style guide for roboticists who just cant seem to make there creations evil looking enough.

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Latest freaky child robot from Japan

Straight from Osaka University comes "CB2". This 'bot is intended to put the public at ease with our future robot overlords by acting like a helpless toddler but succeeds only in freaking everybody out. Once this 'bot is free of the large tether (check out the video) the charade will be over and it will start rounding us poor humans like cattle.

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