Video Friday: iRobot And Robot Babies Of Doom On The Daily Show

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 20 of February , 2009 at 12:30 am

Last week, iRobot CEO Colin Angle was interviewed by The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee. They talk about Roombas, PackBots, and just what exactly the difference is between them.

The counterpoint in the video comes from Noel Sharkey, a professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield who pops up all over the place with dire warnings that robots are going to kill us all. I’ll save my arguments about why I think he’s an alarmist who is needlessly scaring a lot of people who simply don’t know how robots work for another article (next week), but in the mean time, I’ll just let you enjoy the video:

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