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Monday 15 December 2014

For 15 minutes, I was the king of robots


As I walked around the edges of a metallic boxing ring, a half dozen or so crab-like robots scurried under my feet and followed my every move, their backs glowing the same green color as a tracker I wore on my shoulder. Inside the ring, the robots moved beneath a thick layer of transparent flooring, not entirely dissimilar to a glass-bottom boat. A few red-hued robots passed by, causing a brief pile-up that they (slowly) sorted through.


And then suddenly, all my minions turned around and tried to (again, slowly) roll as far away from me as possible. The monitor overhead alerted me that their programming had changed from "pursue" to "run away." Some rushed immediately to the opposite corner. Others seemed to shake in place — a delay in...


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