I think we’re all big enough to admit that one day, robots will rule us all – if they don’t kill us first.

Plus, they’re probably going to handle this whole climate change thing better than us.

Maybe it’s time we started blending in, like Theresa May does with her dancing, in the hopes that they may spare those who are capable of assimilating.

Where am I going with all of that waffle above? I dunno, it’s been a long year, but this story involves a “hi-tech robot” that wasn’t really a robot at all.

The Guardian reporting below:

A “hi-tech robot” shown on Russian state television has turned out to be a man in a suit.

Russia-24 praised the ersatz android during coverage of a youth forum dedicated to robotics, boasting that “Robot Boris has already learned to dance and he’s not that bad”.

But sharp-eyed bloggers were dubious. The Russian website TJournal listed questions about the robot’s performance: Where were Boris’s external sensors? Why did the robot make so many “unnecessary movements” while dancing?

And why did the robot look like a person would fit perfectly inside of it?

Because a person would, and did. Observe:

At that stage, the humanoid was still undetected, but then these images appeared:

Not ideal.

First, they came for the bottle-flip challenges, and we did nothing. Next, our very livelihood.

Who pulled it off better? Russian robot man, or Flight of the Conchords?

[source:guardian]