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HOW WOULD
HUMANS
SURVIVE A
CURRENT
ROBOT
APOCALYPSE?
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Ok, when you hear “Robot Apocalypse”
what usually goes on in your head? You
may be imagining an army of Terminator-ish
automations ready to destroy the human
race who built them—just like in those sci-fi
movies.
Our technology is evolving through time,
but we still have a long way to go. So instead
of imagining the terminator-style robot
revolution, let’s imagine: what if our current
machines suddenly turned against us? How
long would humanity last?
Here’s how the scenario might go.
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JULY 2016
Future Cities & Robotics
#1
In laboratories, experimental robots would
go wild and leap from their benches and try
to locate the door, only to suddenly crash
onto the door and fall over. However, for
those robots who have limbs, they may be
able to open the doorknob and successfully
leave the room.
After a few hours, they would be found
in bathrooms, trying to destroy and trash
everything while looking for humans to
exterminate only to be short-circuited due to
the water spillage they’ve caused.