Government Blows $300M on Military Robots by Man Who Builds Vacuums

By Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet
Posted on February 12, 2009, Printed on November 29, 2009
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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.

Watch it:

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