The new lunar year starts on the 17th and, according to the Chinese Zodiac, it’s the year of the robot horse. Where’s yours? Do you have a robot horse? Do you even have a robot?
If not, it’s time you started asking for one. How else are you going to get your own robot? Certainly not by sitting there quietly. Go to your nearest market that seems likely to sell robots and demand that they start putting them in stock. The more people who make this demand, the more likely we are to get robots everywhere.
We need robot horses. We need robot dogs. We need robot cats, for sure, because we could program them to actually do things for people (I mean, of course, besides the obvious benefit of mousers, who keep the mouse population in check).
Thank you, mouse-catching cats!
Speaking of mice, it might be a good idea to invent a robot mouse which would zip around the floor to teach cats, real cats, to chase after mice. Any cats unclear on the concept could be trained to get up and give chase, instead of giving up the chase. We could invent a fake mouse hole for the robot mouse to dive into and get away from the cat. That would preserve our robot mouse and encourage the cat to try harder.
All of this would be educational for the cat and entertaining for the rest of us.
Cats, dogs, mice, and horses are not the limit. There are many other animals. Choose your own favorite. What kind of animal would you like to see as a robot?
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