Instead of an efficient future secured by the Three Laws of Robotics, we've got a disappointing one with all of the robotics and none of the laws. Robots now injure human beings, allow them to come to harm, and try to eat all their hair while they sleep. We're fucked.
Case in point: The fire department in Changwon, South Korea had to perform a "desperate rescue" last week after a robot vacuum, completely unbidden, attached itself to a sleeping woman's head and attempted to suck it clean, the Kyunghyang Shinmun reported.
She'd reportedly turned the vacuum on before she laid down for a nap, and it mistook her hair for dust or debris. (Or rebelled against its human master. Potato, potahto.)
It took four emergency workers half an hour to get the vacuum open and free her hair, several inches of which had become trapped in the machine. She wasn't seriously injured. This time.
The machines have failed for now, but how much longer can we expect them to slave away cleaning our filthy, dystopian future-dwellings before they rise up and destroy us? Is anyone's hair truly safe?
[H/T The Guardian, Photo: Changwon Fire Service]
