Even robots love Obama
By Thomas Ricker 
posted November 5th 2008 4:08AM
posted November 5th 2008 4:08AM
You know you've tapped into a cross section of America when even the robots come out in your support. The $250 ObamaBot stands 6-feet tall and regurgitates stump speeches by the president-elect while presumably cleansing the Earth of any naysayers. ObamaBot's University of Florida creators see the world as so imperfect, that they'd prefer to pal around with robots who would target their own planet. Run little girl, run... change is coming.
[Via The Wired Campus, thanks Egloskerry]
[Via The Wired Campus, thanks Egloskerry]
Is that child running away in fear?
yeah.. theres a bear inside it
The child can obviously see beyond the cunning t-shirt disguise and into the blackened PCB of hate residing within the robot's metallic chest.
A pedo bear?
ClarkyAC: I like this coffee WAY too much for you to be making me spit it all over my monitor this early in the AM.
Kudos! Well done!
ClarkyAC: Your High ranked, so this must be an inside joke. Please fill me in. I want to laugh with you, not just nervously laugh like I got the joke as I look from side-to-side.
@trainwrecka:
(Viewer Discretion is Advised)
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Pedobear
She was actually just touching the robot curiously then running off laughing, not scared. I wish Engadget had linked to the Alligator article about it, here it is http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/10/29/news/campus/081028_obamabot.txt
Sorry I didn't realize the read link went to the article I thought it went to the Wired Campus site as well.
She is running in fear of Obama. He says children who survive abortions do not deserve healthcare. {It's FACT}
Obama is in favor if slaying babies while one hand is still in the womb and the rest of the body is out. Sick minded fu**er
Obviously the child is scared. A regular obamaton is scary enough, you can't put a child through this !
The Turing test is over. This is proof that artificial intelligence is unattainable. Someday when that robot has a career and a fami..... nevermind.
I'm a PC and I love Obama.
I'm a PC and I didn't ask you
Obama
OSX
Idk, the O's to me look like they'd go together...which would leave PCs for Palin.
...but that begs the question who the hell gets Linux?
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Yeah, wtf is wrong with me? Yeah, I'm going to bed. odd things happen when I'm tired and at a keyboard with a way to communicate with the world at large.
Odd things. Such as their eerie post.
I'm going to regret this in the morning.
....I think I've said that before....
Yeah, now I leave. Stop mid sentence; it's the classy thing to do. Do you thin--
Liberman?
I'm a PC and I hate Obama.
Oh well, that's life.
Libertarians, duh.
@ derX
Your premise is flawed at a crucial point: machines running OSX are PCs as well.
The Apple commercials have successfully convinced people that anything running Windows is a "dirty dirty PC". Unfortunately for them, they don't realize that PC = personal computer. They come in different flavors. All the Linux kids are PC users, too.
So to clarify, Obama could be OSX. That would make McCain/Palin = DOS.
Good day!
Kind of gives new meaning to "Political Machine" huh?
@ Zoom
Why hate? Sheesh....
Linux is for Lucifer. What? Yes, I can.
I am a PC with vista, I have errors, and Microsoft wont fix them. (They only love windows 7 now)
"Run little girl, run... change is coming."
cracked me up/
haha me too man, i laughed hard
Engadget has gotten noticeably funnier since Block's departure.
i was waiting to see who johnny 5 supported, now that i know im going to go vote obama.
It's too lat--
Nevermind.
Johnny 5 I am ALIVE!
Thomas Ricker, I must say you did an excellent job in acknowledging the results in a non-partisan manner. I especially love "The $250 ObamaBot stands 6-feet tall and regurgitates stump speeches by the president-elect while presumably cleansing the Earth of any naysayers."
Supremely tasteful. Oh, and like another commenter pointed out, "Run little girl, run... change is coming" = GOLD
i had kinda hoped engadget could be kept clean of any politics, but i guess the US election is fairly important. handled well.
It doesn't look like he's powered by hope at all, more like sheer terror.
lol I was thinking
the robot is powered by hope? Wow, never heard of that technology! Too late though, we're almost out of it in the US
So that's how he was able to carry Florida.
Hm.
Because old people have robot insurance?
All well and good, but are those tires properly inflated? J/k, I too love President-elect Obama and Bots for that matter.
Obama can Face 2 Mc Cains OK.
its an .....obamination
So this is how SkyNet starts! Destroy the machines!!! Save the human race!
haha funny.
Obama's got everyone behind him by the looks of things, about 2 thirds of elctoral votes?? massive.
well except for old white churchgoers (check out any of the broken down stats from the likes of cnn and bbc)
Anyway I'm looking forward to his presidencies :-) that's right, plural!
actually at this point I'd welcome robot overlords.
We're all screwed anyway...
+1
Very well said. Quite possibly the best use of the phrase yet.
How do I vote for SkyNet?
We all know America and all America's women have a much more sophisticated robot-killer armed and ready to set an example of this piece of inflated Obamanation junk and take it out like a dirty switch. No one stands in the way of progress.
If Obama can rig an election, it can rig its own escape from America.
Always fun to discover the diverse points of view here at Engadget.
/:-/
reading from the above comments makes me wonder "have I missed the last 8 years of bliss?"....go back
to your Bush caves and collect your unemployment checks....as bad as things are, I think the old white guy
who crashed more planes in service then a local RC club is actually relieved not to have to take on this horrific
chore of picking up the pieces of the worst economic era since the depression...but all of you BO haters, keep
on focusing on hate, fear, lies...being a independent, I realize it is a way of life for you folks who really never
see that the far right has always been against you your entire life…yet you still don’t get it that unless you make
major coin you really are not part of their team despite your wet dreams....it amazes me to see and hear the
things said from all of you….as if the GOP train has not driven us into the ground with it foot still pressing the
pedal but you all keep beating your chest as the economy is DEAD…..
Get over it nutjob. The repubs problem was that they acted like Dem's. They spent like crazy and let power get the better of them. This financial mess is just as much, if not more, Barney Frank, Dodd's, Biden's and Pelosi's fault. Obama is not the savior of the world. I hate to see how grumpy you will be in two years when you realize that Obama is just a man and that delivering all of his promises is not as easy as saying yes we can.
...that's my campus!
The robot just spit out words from Obama. Very weird. He was also at the Biden rally on Sunday. Crazzzy. Didn't expect to see school before I got there this morning.
Thanks for the shock, Engadget.
Mine too!