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mental-escher
Jun 16th, 2005, 06:23 PM
Cue image of fleets of angry mechanoids taking up arms and storming the local health care facility- but it was really just a single robot gone wild (http://news.com.com/2061-11128_3-5746689.html)at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center.

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Nobody is quite sure what prompted poor, mild-mannered 'Waldo' — a lowly medicine-delivering bot — to run amok and terrorize the cancer ward.

Waldo apparently blazed past the pharmacy and blew into the radiation oncology examining room where a physician was treating a cancer patient — and wouldn’t leave.

It was enough to prompt the patient to flee the room in terror.

What could disturb a robot so deeply?

Messy breakup with EMMA the nursebot?

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