Luckily for us humans, robots aren't quite taking over by shooting us in our streets and in our driveways. They're just being built by 81-year-old men as an "intricate suicide machine" in order to remotely shoot himself. Here's where the story gets sad: the man downloaded the plans from the internet, built the machine on his driveway, then positioned himself in front of the robot in order to shoot himself. He did this in response to "demands by interstate relatives that he move out his home and into care." Our heart goes out to you, sir. [Gold Coast via News.com.au]

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