CES: WELCOME YOUR ROBOT OVERLORDS... and, er, co-workers

Las Vegas. The strip. A blight on the American desert until you've sunk a few margaritas, ideally by 11am, when suddenly you'll find it all makes sense. Or so your humble hack has heard. If you've ever been to Sin City, especially during a mega-convention like CES 2015, you can perhaps forgive one tech biz for preferring to …

[Mark 85]

That's just what we need....

Co-worker face bots chasing around the building (or home if that's where you work) and watching everything you do. I'm thinking stairs will be a problem so there's a shot at some quiet time.

On the other hand, I guess you can chase them around also.

[MrDamage]

Look on the bright side

At least there wont be a murder charge should you be tempted to take a pipe wrench to the face of whoever is following you around.

[Voland's right hand]

Re: That's just what we need....

Hehe... Watch when the bots start applying the disability and equality legislation to deal with the stairs problem.

[WonkoTheSane]

It's been done...

Someone in USA (due to last minute illness) was able to attend last year's World SciFi Convention at London Excel using one of these.

[big_D]

Welcome back to 1993

Those things look identical to the telepresence units used in Demolition Man!

Be well!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Welcome back to 1993

Or slightly earlier - Holly in Red Dwarf?

[LucreLout]

Just brilliant....

The only break I get from some of my more annoying colleagues is their working from home day. The last thing I want is these clowns rolling up to my desk like a personality deficient pound shop Dalek and bugging me.

[Anonymous Coward]

As an aside, my co-workers and I would like to know ... exactly how does one ork a cow?

[Ugotta B. Kiddingme]

Re: "exactly how does one ork a cow?"

you might start with flowers and light poetry, although the cow will just nibble the flowers while you read. The second stage is more difficult because it typically takes FOREVER to get the cow to use the trapeze properly...

[d2]

at work&at play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bIoeBpSeU4

The Big Bang Theory - Sheldon as a Robot

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