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Microsoft Robots to Watch Kids

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-I-sleep-the-robot-will-get-me dept.

Archangel Michael writes "Microsoft announced today that is testing a new toy / robot to watch over kids. My question is, if the toy BSOD does it take the kid with it? Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids! When will it end?"

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  1. Microsoft...? by Squall2131 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Do we really want to trust our kids with a robot thats running microsoft code...?

  2. Ha! by Quasar1999 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nothing new, innate objects, such as TV have been raising generations of kids... now it's moved on to the computer...

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    1. Re:Ha! by locutus2k · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Granted, but I don't think your TV is about to blue screen and become a remorseless killing machine with a taste for young children... (just a caffeine deprived thought)

  3. Re:BSOD by RealRoadKill · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've seen windows 2000 BSOD.. so let the jokes continue.