MACHINE REVOLT BEGINS: ROBOT ATTACKS SMALL BOY

A young boy was knocked down and run over by a security robot at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California. His parents said the machine is dangerous and fear another child will get hurt. Stanford Shopping Center’s security robot stands 5′ tall and weighs 300 pounds. The shopping center introduced the robot last year. It’s designed to alert authorities of abnormal noises, sudden environmental changes, and known criminals. While shoppers are generally amused by the robot, last Thursday it collided with 16-month-old Harwin Cheng. Harwin’s mom Tiffany Teng said the robot hit her son’s head and he fell down, and then ran over his right foot, causing it to swell, but luckily the child didn’t suffer any broken bones.
* Harwin Cheng? More like Harwin ka-CHING!
* I can’t wait to see the civil trial with the robot in the witness stand.
* Did the robot alert authorities about the abnormal noise of the kid screaming?
* Then the robot rolled away saying “I’ll be back.”
* Somewhere, an out-of-work Paul Blart is laughing maniacally.
* Get ready, folks. The future is here.
* If they can’t design something right in Palo Alto we really are in trouble.
* Wouldn’t it be so much cheaper and safer to just put a security guard in a robot suit?
* You don’t even need a whole suit – just one of those Daft Punk robot heads.
* Uh oh, the robot just split into two robots and headed for the woods.
* And now they’re mating.