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Send in the clowns robots

Rising from the swamp of futility

By Ashlee Vance in Pittsburgh • Get more from this author

Posted in Rise of the Machines, 1st July 2006 01:16 GMT

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Weird little robot

Very gray robot

We call this piece "Aibo humping a table near a vacuum."

Sony's robotic Aibo dog near a robotic vacuum

spinnybot

Tall robot

And we leave you with the scene of destruction left when the robots took off. ®

Empty conference room full of junk

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