Christian Hubicki

He did one little peep and I could tell the parents who looked around with alarm.

They looked around just like, I was like, I'm sorry.

Sorry.

We'll get back to the seminar.

I thought he was Womble for a moment there.

Extremely.

I want to go to the con, the mini-con, and the not-a-con.

No, no, if you fail this, just don't even think about it.

I won't remind you of my horrible, actually, I just did run into my horrible science or fiction record with you guys, even in robotics.

So I'm here for redemption, my friends.

So science or fiction season 50.

Item one, Hitchbot, you know, being destroyed in the United States of America.

Well, first off, this is the kind of study that social roboticists would like to do.

I could see them doing a study like that that makes a lot of sense.

And just isn't the parable just too juicy, you know, about the United States here?

All right, number two, credit, okay, for the first mechanical robot in science fiction is given to the Sandman.

Wow.

this is always dangerous because the definition of robot is so hopelessly broad.

So I understand that the word credit is given is doing some heavy lifting there, but like robots will, people will define robots as incredibly broad things.

My instinct is to say that it's much earlier than this.