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South Korea to Build Robot Theme Parks

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-robot-may-not-let-a-human-ride-unless-they-are-at-least-this-tall dept.

coondoggie writes "South Korea officials today said they hope to build two robot theme parks for $1.6 billion by 2013. The parks will feature a number of attractions that let visitors interact with robots and test new products. "The two cities will be developed as meccas for the country's robot industry, while having amusement park areas, exhibition halls and stadiums where robots can compete in various events," the ministry said. The theme parks are not a big surprise because South Korea loves its robots. Earlier this year the government of South Korea said it was drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots — and vice versa."

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  1. oblig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    i for one welcome our fun loving robotic overlords!!

    1. Re:oblig by Propaganda13 · · Score: 3, Funny

      "The two cities will be developed as mechas for the country's robot industry, while having amusement park areas, exhibition halls and stadiums where robots can compete in various events," the ministry said.

      fixed the spelling error

    2. Re:oblig by gijoel · · Score: 2, Funny

      By my calculations the robots should turn on their human masters sometime in the next 24 hours.

      Oops, forgot to carry the decimal point.

  2. So...Many...References... by KiraFace · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing can possibl-y go wrong.

    1. Re:So...Many...References... by crowbarsarefornerdyg · · Score: 3, Funny

      I quit when I found out what the girders were being used for. To build South Korean robot theme parks!

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      "Slapping lipstick on a pig does NOT make it Natalie Portman. Paris Hilton, maybe, but not Portman." - UncleTogie
  3. Please, people! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    No flash photography.

  4. look, that's what I like, ok? by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The parks will feature a number of attractions that let visitors interact with robots and test new products.

    Either "new products" means "interactive tentacle hentai", or I'm not interested.

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    The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
  5. Discrimination by vga_init · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is just plain offensive. I don't see any parks opening up where robots can go to interact with humans and test new robot products. It just makes me sick, you know... what do they think robots are, anyway? Our Slaves? Ugh.

  6. Re:Westworld by ettlz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yul be sorry.

  7. Oblig Simpsons Quote by thehatmaker · · Score: 4, Funny

    "See all that stuff inside, Homer? That's why your robot never worked!"

  8. Obvious question by so+sue+mee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will these theme parks have stairs and will the robots try to protect us from the terrible secrets of Space?

  9. Content by halcyon1234 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will it have hookers? And blackjack?

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    UTF-8: There and Back Again
    1. Re:Content by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

      In fact, forget the theme park! And the blackjack!

      Chris Mattern

  10. Re:Robot Ethics? by comradeeroid · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure we are quite to that point yet. What we currently call "machine intelligence" is not quite up to the intelligence level of a cockroach. There's no harm in being prepared.
    When our 22 feet cybernetic robot masters come I have my "Welcome" banner allready painted and prepared.
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    If you see a rock violating the law of gravity, then the law is wrong, not the rock!
  11. Re:Strange pastime for a robot by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't talk to me abount depression. Brain the size of a planet...

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  12. North Korea abandons nuclear program by barbazoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    South Korea builds Meccas!

  13. Oblig. by HungSoLow · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.

  14. Enclosures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Please do not feed the robots"

    1. Re:Enclosures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "Please do not reprogram the robots!"

  15. We're outta Bort license plates. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, my name is also Bort.

  16. Theme park FOR robots? by MMHere · · Score: 2, Funny

    I initially thought this was going to be a theme park where robots
    can go to spend their free time and 'wind down.' They could have fantasy
    rides where robots are allowed to simulate, in a non-harmful way, egregious
    breaking of Asimov's Three Laws...