Journalist Robot Looks To Replace Us Bloggers

While we can scoff and laugh at researchers’ attempts to come up with journalistic robots now, there’s probably going to be a real threat to our jobs from them a few years down the line. The researchers at the Intelligent Systems Informatics Lab in Tokyo have come up with a robot that seems intent on becoming a journalist. The robot is capable of autonomously exploring its surroundings, and if it notices any changes in the setting, it will snap a picture via its on-board camera, and upload it to the web with a short article. To make things creepier, the robot doesn’t mind questioning people nearby for information, so expect to get an interview with this robot if it happens to be in your vicinity. You may scoff at it now, but we’d like to keep an eye on this, job security, you know?