At the 2007 Consumer Electronic Show held in Las Vegas, the buzz wasn’t about what was being shown. The talk was about what wasn’t being shown. Showgoers expected to finally get a glimpse at the killer robots that major electronics corporations are rumored to be working on. Unfortunately, the show floor did not contain any murderous androids, much to the dismay of the people in attendance. ‘We know they have Killer Robots, why are they keeping them under wraps’ one retailer asked. ‘I have a long waiting list of customers who are demanding a robot that has the ability to one day turn on them and force them into a life of servitude.’

Executives at the show were apologetic. Sony’s Ken Watanabe said ‘Our death bot is just not ready to be shown to the public. We don’t want to display something that can just maim or cripple. We are all about quality at Sony. Until it’s a perfect killing machine, we will continue to develop it.’  Honda had a similar take on the subject. ‘We made a mistake by showing off the Asimo too early, before the stun rays were ready. It gave false hope to would be supervillans. Now we’ve learned our lesson. But, we are doing some closed door demonstrations of Asimo 3.0 using a machete. That’s as far as we’re willing to go this year’.

The show consensus was that 2009 will be the year killer robots finally make an entrance and enslave us all to do their bidding. We can’t wait.

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