Meet Roomba’s Younger Bro: Kill-Bot

We’re familiar with Roomba – I’ve alread exposed the dirty underbelly of this benign looking parasitic robot spy in a previous post. Some of you may have written that off as lunacy from a technophobic Luddite…. riiight.

How would you feel if you knew that the same circuits that power and control your cute little Roomba buddy are running through iRobot’s (ominously named creator of Roomba) other brainchild?

Say hello to Warrior, AKA Kill-Bot:

“A big, fast-moving, semi-autonomous ‘bot capable of killing a whole bunch of people at once.”

Heavily armed robots are already parading through the streets of Iraq (more on this later), the difference between those scary-ass looking robots and Kill-Bot is that Kill-Bot is semi-autonomous. This means using artificial (read: scornful of humanity, heartless and soulless) intelligence, the robot decides on it’s own who it kills next. Semi-autonomous… yeah, right until it gains consciousness of itself, and takes control of the human controlled heavily armed killing machines, and sets to work hunting down humans, armed with accurate maps of the interiors of our homes (thanks FPB)

Before finding this out I considered posting a “what’s more dangerous: a scary-ass heavily armed killing machine being shipped abroad, or the cute and cuddly Floor-Plan Bot that people are purchasing for themselves, and gifting to friends, knowingly allowing them to feast on our electricity and hover around our homes unsupervised?” The point of such a post is now moot. They are hardly distinguishable.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some of Kill-Bot’s gun turrets are backwards compatible with the Trojan Horse Roomba.