South Korea to Build Robot Theme Parks

coondoggie writes "South Korea officials today said they hope to build two robot theme parks for $1.6 billion by 2013. The parks will feature a number of attractions that let visitors interact with robots and test new products. "The two cities will be developed as meccas for the country's robot industry, while having amusement park areas, exhibition halls and stadiums where robots can compete in various events," the ministry said. The theme parks are not a big surprise because South Korea loves its robots. Earlier this year the government of South Korea said it was drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots — and vice versa."

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[Anonymous Coward]

i for one welcome our fun loving robotic overlords!!

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[KiraFace]

Nothing can possibl-y go wrong.

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[crowbarsarefornerdyg]

I quit when I found out what the girders were being used for. To build South Korean robot theme parks!

Please, people!

[Anonymous Coward]

No flash photography.

look, that's what I like, ok?

[User 956]

The parks will feature a number of attractions that let visitors interact with robots and test new products.

Either "new products" means "interactive tentacle hentai", or I'm not interested.

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[Propaganda13]

"The two cities will be developed as mechas for the country's robot industry, while having amusement park areas, exhibition halls and stadiums where robots can compete in various events," the ministry said.

fixed the spelling error

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[vga_init]

This is just plain offensive. I don't see any parks opening up where robots can go to interact with humans and test new robot products. It just makes me sick, you know... what do they think robots are, anyway? Our Slaves? Ugh.

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[ettlz]

Yul be sorry.

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[thehatmaker]

"See all that stuff inside, Homer? That's why your robot never worked!"

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[gijoel]

By my calculations the robots should turn on their human masters sometime in the next 24 hours.

Oops, forgot to carry the decimal point.

Obvious question

[so sue mee]

Will these theme parks have stairs and will the robots try to protect us from the terrible secrets of Space?

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[halcyon1234]

Will it have hookers? And blackjack?

Re:Robot Ethics?

[comradeeroid]

I'm not sure we are quite to that point yet. What we currently call "machine intelligence" is not quite up to the intelligence level of a cockroach.

There's no harm in being prepared.
When our 22 feet cybernetic robot masters come I have my "Welcome" banner allready painted and prepared.

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[Hognoxious]

Don't talk to me abount depression. Brain the size of a planet...

North Korea abandons nuclear program

[barbazoo]

South Korea builds Meccas!

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[Chris Mattern]

In fact, forget the theme park! And the blackjack!

Chris Mattern

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[HungSoLow]

You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.

Enclosures

[Anonymous Coward]

"Please do not feed the robots"

We're outta Bort license plates.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, my name is also Bort.

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[Anonymous Coward]

"Please do not reprogram the robots!"

Theme park FOR robots?

[MMHere]

I initially thought this was going to be a theme park where robots
can go to spend their free time and 'wind down.' They could have fantasy
rides where robots are allowed to simulate, in a non-harmful way, egregious
breaking of Asimov's Three Laws...