Aren’t you a little tired of seeing nothing but Roombas for sale at woot.com? Sure, the little robots do a great job cleaning up after us filthy humans, but come on! Robots need faces! Why is it that in 2009 our robots have no faces, when twenty years ago you could get a floor-cleaning robot with a face?
Not just a face, but big red-light eyes and arms that carry useful tools like a broom and dustpan! The little Robo Sapiens has a built in vacuum as well as edge detection to keep the fella safe. Truly, the 80s were a wonderful era, filled with progress and innovation. Nowadays our robots are faceless, lifeless abominations.
If I look at my roomba, its curved handle kind of looks like a smile. Not too much, but just enough. Kind of like the front end of many cars.
I remember those, I actually had one as a kid, one of those and that yellow bank-robot that would “eat” the coins you gave it. Pretty popular at Radioshack at the time.
Though, back then I was one of those kids who preffered to get tools rather than toys and was more interested in taking toys apart to see how they worked then putting them back together…. until I got into videogames that is :)