#our robot future

[rivertalesien]

Saw this on Bluesky. New security robot just dropped:

Yes, it's real, it's 400 lbs of pure only-moves-forward bullet-egginess.

I wonder what its evolution will be? We do have some options.

1.

There's Eve from Wall-E; friendly, sweet, very helpful, also very dangerous with laser arms.

2.

There's also the Emojibot (Doctor Who). Added arms and "face" give this a goofy astronaut feel, still potentially deadly (you'd better smile).

3.

This is actually far more recent, the "Plato" robot now seen in restaurants hauling away your refuse, dressed like he belongs at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Or, if you just want to add a few doodads to the first, you might end up with something like this:

4.

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Mann & Machine is an American science fiction/police drama series that aired for nine episodes on NBC from April 5, 1992 to July 14, 1992. 

Created by Dick Wolf and Robert De Laurentis, the series starred Yancy Butler as Sgt. Eve Edison, a beautiful police officer who is also a sophisticated gynoid robot capable of learning and emotion. She is partnered with Det. Bobby Mann (David Andrews), a human officer who holds disdain for robots. Rounding out the regular cast was S. Epatha Merkerson as Capt. Claghorn, Mann and Edison's superior officer.

The series focused on Mann and Edison's criminal investigations in a Los Angeles of the "near future"—sometime around the beginning of the 21st century though the exact year is never stated. An ongoing subplot of the series focused on Eve's continuing education about what makes humans tick, and her ever-growing capacity for emotion, highlighted by the penultimate episode "Billion Dollar Baby" in which Eve is placed in charge of caring for an infant, activating unexpected maternal feelings.