MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Onion, America's Finest News Source.  ;-)

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Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police 
custody today following a brutal hazing incident in which one robot remains missing and two others are in critical 
condition with extensive circuitry and servo-motor injuries, sources revealed Monday.

The robots, experimental prototypes recently devised at MIT's prestigious Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, were 
participating in an apparent initiation exercise that police say involved butyl alcohol and compressed air.

According to eyewitnesses, the three robots were ripped from their chargers at the Theta Tau chapter house at 3 a.m. 
Tuesday. One, a titanium-alloy hexapod approximately 13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built 
at a grade too steep for its small hinged legs, causing six of its pneumatic actuators to short out. A second robot, a 
biped from MIT's Leg Laboratory, was allegedly forced to replicate "the same humiliating hopping algorithm" 200,000 
times, and is currently in critical condition in the laboratory's emergency-repair room.

The third robot, a tread-driven 38-inch-tall rover, is feared drowned after being forced to consume over 40 terabytes 
of data and then swim across the Charles River with a burning candle stuck in its rear port.

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More:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47207

- ferg

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 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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