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Robots Ride Camels in Kuwait

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the camel-jewelry dept.

naken writes to tell us that Kuwait recently held its first regional camel race using robot jockeys. The change was made after human rights groups got child jockeys banned in Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE."

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  1. Re:They got it wrong... by luvirini · · Score: 4, Informative
    The problem was that many kids were bought from their parents in other countries and brought for the races, maltreated with too little food and so on.. to be as low weight as possible.

    That was a horrible practice.

  2. Re:How odd... by smilingman · · Score: 4, Informative

    I could have sworn CNN had a Reuters article on this very same thing over a year ago. Could anyone help prove me with a link? Maybe I'm just losing it... ...though some would argue I never had it in the first place.

    You probably have seen it before, it's a dupe.