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I for one welcome our new robotic babysitters …
> Although it's fine at sucking up dirt, finding its way around the room and
> returning to its charging station, its real achievement is in not only
> getting the children to clean up their toys first but also tiring them out
> before bed.
>
> This works with three magic phrases:
>
> 1. “Roomba's coming out tonight. Clean up your toys or Roomba will eat
> them!”
> 2. “If you can clean them up fast you can stay up to watch Roomba!”
> 3. “Here goes Roomba. Don't let him touch you!”
>
“Robot Child-herders [1]”
Hmmm …
[1]
http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/05/robot_childherd.html
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