TOP

I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Chef Overlords

Don’t believe that Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics will protect us from Cui Runguan’s army of noodle-making robot chefs. Something always goes wrong when you give robots weapons. Always. One night one of them will get struck by lightning or one of them will accidentally receive a highly-classified weapons-grade microchip — or something involving a tesseract — they’ll become dangerously self-aware and Bam! Black Mirror season five. The mad scientists at Boston Dynamics (who seem hellbent on destroying humanity) are teaching robots to climb walls, walk up steps and open doors so it’s really only a matter of time now…