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muriel_volestrangler

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27. This is art

Tue Jun 12, 2012, 02:36 PM

Jun 2012

The public has been introduced to the machine as part an interactive art installation called Last Moment Hospital displayed at a RISD show earlier this year, as well as at Brown University Science Center.

Medical bracelets, health information forms, and other related medical products transform the space into a hospital-like environment where people go for a fake final rite of passage. A hospital bed sits in an empty room lit with a single fluorescent light; the Last Moment Robot is situated by the bedside.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57447109-76/last-moment-robot-end-of-life-detected/

I think people here are taking this a bit too seriously.

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'Last Moments Robot' Comforts You To Death [View all] n2doc Jun 2012 OP

that is in the uncanny valley....nt Evasporque Jun 2012 #1

hard to imagine the mentality of the person who thought that up. HiPointDem Jun 2012 #2

The sick fuck who invented this! longship Jun 2012 #3

Actually I can't agree Xyzse Jun 2012 #7

It's like some sort of dystopic Issac Asimov story. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2012 #4

DU hardly ever makes me cry. annabanana Jun 2012 #5

Yeah, reading that scripted message pretty much killed the rest of my day Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #20

My goodness, what a convenient way to obfuscate guilt! "RIP, __________ and a good time patrice Jun 2012 #6

We're all born to die alone, so you'd better see to it that you enjoy every moment you have Egalitarian Thug Jun 2012 #8

Robot? I don't want Romney comforting me at the end stage Ezlivin Jun 2012 #9

Last Moments Robot is insulted by your insinuation that he is anything like Romney, lol. siligut Jun 2012 #13

I dunno, a last moment handjob doesn't sound too bad. FSogol Jun 2012 #10

I'm a Jungian introvert. I'd rather deal with the robot TrogL Jun 2012 #11

I'd opt for the affordable, low-tech option: a puppy n/t B2G Jun 2012 #12

I hear they use it in the Netherlands. You know, when they euthanize people louis-t Jun 2012 #14

Does the robot double as a bong with a bowl full of "White Widow"? geardaddy Jun 2012 #34

Don't be sad. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Liberal Veteran Jun 2012 #15

Some of the other quotes the robot says during your last moments: Capt. Obvious Jun 2012 #16

This was the robot I was born to smash with an axe. Because I'm human. nt Poll_Blind Jun 2012 #17

BTW, for anyone who's seen Soylen Green: Remember the death of Edward G Robinson's char? Poll_Blind Jun 2012 #18

That solution was actually a million times more humane, by comparison... Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #21

While horrific in its own way, it was. nt Poll_Blind Jun 2012 #22

I can hardly wait to see what the hospital charges for this "service" LiberalEsto Jun 2012 #19

The person's survivors *deserve* huge debt B2G Jun 2012 #24

I'd rather have the Death Cat KamaAina Jun 2012 #23

This thread is now officially creeping the shit out of me. Poll_Blind Jun 2012 #25

Yes, but Death Cat at least is warm and cuddly. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2012 #29

Nah, I hear ya. Death Cat has street cred in my book. I think it was the robot that... Poll_Blind Jun 2012 #30

Has humanity really deteriorated to this level? revolution breeze Jun 2012 #26

This is art muriel_volestrangler Jun 2012 #27

I say it's prophesy. Poll_Blind Jun 2012 #32

If that comes to the U.S., they can call it Self-Checkout nt LiberalEsto Jun 2012 #28

Hah! Arugula Latte Jun 2012 #33

A DUZY!! Nay Jun 2012 #37

Give it time and the robots will look like your favorite actor lunatica Jun 2012 #31

Of Gawd! Now the Freepers will be demanding a Sarah Palin Version n/t n2doc Jun 2012 #35

And I think they should get it lunatica Jun 2012 #36

Wow, something even creepier than those Siri commercials. n/t gkhouston Jun 2012 #38

oh, geez... CTyankee Jun 2012 #39