The Engineer Online – 23 January 2006:

A University of Florida engineer has designed a robot to take X-ray video of sufferers of orthopaedic injuries as they walk, climb stairs, stand up from a seated position or pursue other normal activities.

“Our goal is come up with a way to observe and measure how joints are moving when people are actually using them,” Banks said. “We think this will be tremendously powerful, not only for research but also in the clinical setting as well.”

Renowned scientist Professor Frink had this to say,

Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.

I’m betting it’ll be called the Xoomba.