The new threat to your grandparents!

The abomination above is the University of Bristol's Chewing Robot, a robot designed to replicate the complex human chewing motion so scientists can study the effects of wear and tear on different materials used to restore missing teeth. This contraption makes it first public appearance (God forbid anything goes awry) at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition in London.

Sure, it is easy to say that one should not criticize our friends across the pond for developing technology that might actually help their notoriously comedic dental issues (it's call a tooth brush-use daily!). However, this chewing robot is clearly designed to replace those members of society who can pretty much do nothing else but chew—the elderly.

Look familiar?

Watch your seat.

Sorry, is this a joke? This robot not only proves what a waste of valuable human time they can be, but how dangerous they are.

Should people really be spending resources developing a chair that falls apart and fixes itself? How much did you spend on that? If you made a chair out of wood, there is a good chance that it wouldn't randomly crumble beneath you.

And this invention now presents us with the horrifying possibility that, at any given time, you are sitting on a robot chair designed to break your neck.

The Self Check Out

This is, far and away, the most annoying machine ever devised. Sure, it might not qualify as a robot, but it is just as dangerous and cruel as one.

1. This machine is taking the job of a human being, no matter how trivial/unwanted that job may appear. People pay for college or keep the lights on by standing there and scanning your goods.

2. The companies that employ these beasts are passing the work on to you.

3. There is always a problem with the scanner or something else.

4. There is still a human assigned to handle four or more of these machines at a time. They are on standby and instead of having to deal with one person's issues, they now have there workload multiplied by four.

So, not only do these twisted bots not simplify the lives of the consumer and lessen the quality of life for those out of work, they make another person's life exponentially more complicated. What to do? Stop using them, wait in line the extra 3-4 minutes and help a person keep their job.

Slightly Topical: Robot Sympathizers

Why on earth would you want to align yourself with the greatest threat to humankind?

Kid robots.

Hate to break the news to you, emotional robot but the same bad luck happens to surrogate and adopted kids. You get no sympathy from me.

Robots

I'm sick of robots taking over the world. These are the most threatening. Well, not the one in this image, it's just a replica of a robot.