STUPID ROBOT ARTICLE OF THE WEEK, STORY OF MY LIFE EDITION

Robot Consumers, Grow Up!

The problem is that, especially for Americans, this is about the only way to make robots palatable: Americans see them as jokes, or fantastical beings that should do everything for us but never be fully trusted.

Thanks Bill.

addendum: The article also links to self-described robot psychiatrist Dr Joanne Pransky, who among other things spoke out against the robot suicide commercial during the last Super Bowl.