Probo Will Not Try to Kill You

Unhappy and slightly overweight, Probo is a robot for modern times. As a construction whose current purpose entails providing moral support to hospitalized children, you’d think that Probo would be capable of expressing a little more joy. Instead, the closest we come is a look of shock, while the average emotion hovers somewhere between acerbic and calculating, as in “how can I murder these humans?” Still, at the moment Probo is benign; it can’t move, and an operator controls the robot’s expressions by remote control. The end goal, however, is to get Probo acting on its own with artificial intelligence. Then, the streets will flow with the blood of the non-Probos. [Probo via Engadget]