http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/ Engadget Comments for University's Morgui robot deemed too scary for kids http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 16th 2007 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 16th 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 16th 2007 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 16th 2007 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/
Agreed. Strangely, when "The Terminator" came out I was fairly young (11) and I thought it was just about the coolest thing ever. What has happened to us? Ugggh. Under *18*? WTF?

By the Way, Morgui - you're beautiful. Don't ever change.]]>Jan 16th 2007 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/
"WTF TERMINATOR!?"]]>Jan 16th 2007 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 16th 2007 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 16th 2007 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/
Seriously though, most kids I know would probably think this thing is cool.
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or
http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/05/uncanny-valley-2-hello-kitty-edition/
I mean, at least you can see the plastic parts so you know right away that it's a just robot, unlike those other robots.]]>Jan 16th 2007 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 16th 2007 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 16th 2007 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/The one who built this, Kevin Warwick, is one of my lecturers. He's the dude who put a chip in his arm, attached to his nervous system, and then controlled a robot arm remotely.]]>Jan 16th 2007 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 16th 2007 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 16th 2007 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/Jan 17th 2007 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/universitys-morgui-robot-deemed-too-scary-for-kids/
By the way, we react like that because of the primordial instincts, being that if you happen to encounter a decaying corpse it is most likely to have lots of diseases and bacteria and such that, albeit with time, could render you dead as well. So as a mechanism of protection, we tend to at least step back (unless you are desensibilitized, e.g. by watching such great movies as Cannibal Holocaust while eating breakfast).

:P]]>Jan 17th 2007 7:16PM