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Robot Gets Swine Flu, Cries About It

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 22 of October , 2009 at 12:09 am

Good news, everyone! Now even robots can get swine flu! This sexy fellow has been designed to exhibit all the symptoms of everyone’s favorite epidemic, including moaning, sweating, convulsing, and crying. And then if you don’t treat him, he stops breathing and dies. And then, I guess, you have to push the reset button. Sounds like some fun training for medical workers… Let’s just hope he’s not contagious, ’cause I haven’t vaccinated my Roomba yet.

VIA [ Pink Tentacle ]

Comments (6)

Category: Androids,Medical,Uncanny Valley

6 Comments

Comment by LeAnne

Made Thursday, 22 of October , 2009 at 5:47 pm

i <3 this. i am a nurse at a local hosp where we have had several h1n1 admits. to bad they not have reset buttons….

Comment by Junee Arandia

Made Friday, 1 of January , 2010 at 9:30 pm

My brother got infected with H1N1 or Swine Flu in Mexico. He got a mild fever and luckily he did not die.

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Made Thursday, 19 of August , 2010 at 6:21 pm

swine flu is really not very deadly at all, there are just mass panic,:-

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Made Wednesday, 6 of October , 2010 at 9:31 am

swine flu scared the hell out of me when there was mass infection of this virus”‘`

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