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Monday, June 4, 2007 12:00 AM

A child robot that looks like it eats children

Japanese scientists show off a "toddler" robot so scary you wonder if they were getting help from Stephen King.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Tuesday, June 5, 2007 10:00 AM

    kind of sad, but not scary...

    The robot looks an awful lot to me like a profoundly developmentally-disabled child, actually (I used to teach in a school for such children). But not inhuman.

    The comments on the YouTube page are what really frighten me.

    —Marianna Trench Read Marianna Trench's other letters

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