Inviting a non-robotics friend round for a bit of a dust-up with your cutting-edge research robots? Sounds like the opening act of a particularly grim, if brief, comedy sketch. Turns out, the actual denouement offers a rather stark, albeit undeniably effective, masterclass in human-robot interaction. It’s a brutal reminder why those ‘safety protocols’ for our collaborative mechanical chums aren’t just polite suggestions from some boffin in a lab coat; they’re the gospel truth according to the Robohorizon Robot King. The robots, bless their circuit boards, emerged entirely unscathed, no doubt returning promptly to their clandestine, regularly scheduled plotting for global domination.
