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First Human/Robot Handshake… In Space

It Came From Outer Space

By Susana PoloFeb 16th, 2012, 9:38 am
 

One of the foundational rules of the setting of Isaac Asimov’s Robot series is that when humanity takes to the stars, we will do it with humanoid robots, bound by the Three Laws and impervious to the environmental pressures, requiring neither food, water, sleep, clothing, bathing, or waste removal, all things that humans need. Delivering to and maintaining them in space, however presents unique challenges, and so the extra labor offered by Robots will be instrumental in humanity conquering the final frontier (if I may switch genres for a brief moment).

So it’s probably a good thing that we’re starting off on the right foot, with all the niceties observed.

(via Gizmodo.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.