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2020-09-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Humanoid robot Pepper can now scan office workers' faces to check if they are wearing masks to help stop the spread of COVID-19

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-15 09:52|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Great, right out of 2001 Space Odessey we have our very own HAL Monitor...."I'm sorry Dave, you must apply your mask."

Posted by USN, Ret. 2020-09-15 10:36|| 2020-09-15 10:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Or I, Robot.

"You have been deemed hazardous."

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-09-15 11:37|| 2020-09-15 11:37|| Front Page Top

#3 If I ever see this 'Pepper' thing, I'm tossing it right out the fucking window.

Posted by Raj 2020-09-15 13:34|| 2020-09-15 13:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Will prob be thermal scanning for CV temps.
Then the health police send you to the quarantine.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-15 14:28|| 2020-09-15 14:28|| Front Page Top

#5 I want to take a maul to that Twinkie lookin' M-F right in its motherboards.

Whoever made that promo video needs to have their arm flayed, stuffed with china paper masks, and slapped across their faces.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-09-15 15:13|| 2020-09-15 15:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Given how high that thing is... I would be sorely tempted to have it scan my bum.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-09-15 15:26|| 2020-09-15 15:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Next up! Arm it with a disinfectant sprayer...

No mask, you get hosed down.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-09-15 15:32|| 2020-09-15 15:32|| Front Page Top

#8 'It puts the mask upon its face or it gets the spray and trace.'

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-09-15 15:49|| 2020-09-15 15:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Amazing! More annoying than MS Excel's Mr.Clippy!

Posted by magpie 2020-09-15 17:28|| 2020-09-15 17:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Snitches get.....dents?

Posted by Mercutio 2020-09-15 17:44|| 2020-09-15 17:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Jeez. Nobody tell g(r)om...