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Government Blows $300M on Military Robots by Man Who Builds Vacuums
The government gave iRobot CEO Colin Angle, creator of the cutest vacuum on earth, the Roomba, $300 million dollars to develop futuristic robots for military use. So Jon Stewart sent the Daily Show's Samantha Bee to investigate what just might be the beginning of the Robotapocalypse.
Seriously, $300 million dollars ... to the guy who invented the Roomba ... to build military robots.
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