Patent Awarded On Robot That Watches You

Desperately clinging to life, you thank your lucky stars you purchased the Autonomous Personal Service Robot, designed to “monitor its owner for symptoms of distress,” with sensors to detect smoke, heat, temperature and carbon monoxide. Accordingly, the APSR is equipped with broadband internet and an MP3 player so it can deal with such crises as […]

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Desperately clinging to life, you thank your lucky stars you purchased the Autonomous Personal Service Robot, designed to "monitor its owner for symptoms of distress," with sensors to detect smoke, heat, temperature and carbon monoxide.

Accordingly, the APSR is equipped with broadband internet and an MP3 player so it can deal with such crises as they arise. See, it's programmed to download and play We Have All The Time In The World as you expire: this is because it is an immortal robot, and secretly relishing your death.

I do so like the idea of a robot designed to monitor its owner.

U.S. Patent 7,228,203 [USPTO]