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They're After Our Children!: Robot Substitute

March 11, 2009 / apocalypse, bad decisions, bad ideas, children, doomsday, fear, japan, kids, killing machines, learning is dangerous, learning is fun, not fun, not good, robotic death, robots, scary, school, teacher, uh-oh, what are we teaching our children?

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Have kids? Well you won't for long if Saya, the robot substitute, has her way. The harbinger of death is allegedly multilingual, capable of calling roll, reading, and assigning work from textbooks. Also, scaring the shit out of your children.

Behind her latex face -- modeled on a university student -- 18 motors create expressions including happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness and even anger.


Saya will start teaching after passing a trial term at a Tokyo primary.

Her creator, science professor Hiroshi Kobayashi, had been working on the robot for 15 years.

Wow, robotic substitutes -- what will they think of next? Robotic cafeteria ladies? That would suck, because I'm a boy that needs extra fish sticks, and you can't bribe a robot. Or can you? Hey Roomba, I'll oil you if you clean under the bed really well. *BEEP BOP BEEP* DOES NOT COMPUTE. You piece of shit, I knew I never should have WOOTed you.

Hit the jump to see what your robotic substitute looks like with no face.

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Top Terminator [thesun]

Thanks to Romeo and Bourtney, who changed the clock to be ten minutes fast when the substitute wasn't looking so they could get out of class early.

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