As for Fear of God: As a Christian myself, I have to say that I honestly doubt your faith. First of all, tweaking toy robots to sniff out pollution isn’t a sin. If someone is gonna tweak them for the purpose of shooting Christians, or just people at large, they’re gonna do it without this leading up to it. Your argument holds no water. And second, laughing at other peoples’ suffering is hardly something that God would condone.

Here’s a link to a page that has an image of a recent dog iteration created by Vestal:
http://www.vestaldesign.com/design/feral-robotic-dogs/

FOG, I hope you were joking.

(count me out of “all the christians will be laughing and pointing at you”)

maybe you should get some help for your paranoia…

I hope fear of god was joking…. i think he/she is the crazy one…

Dude, it was someones uni assignment. Get over it.

They want our kids to get used to having “adorable” robots around to protect us from dangerous, but invisible, threats. Sounds like the liberals have done it again. If we let them keep doing these things, then we (and our CHILDREN) will be so used to it that, when they add guns or other weapons to these little dogs, we won’t complain. Guess who they will go for first? Yes, that’s right, the christians. I can hear it now: the adorable robots are here for your protection. Sorry buddy, not me. I will fight this tooth and nail. I am not angry about this, though, since it will quicken the second coming. Seriously, one of these days you pushovers will look up and see you are in hell. I and all the christians will be laughing and pointing at you with the baby Jesus as you burn forever. I’ll pray for all yall, but you’ll probably go to hell anyway.

Just my two cents.