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Anybots is also well known on HN for being founded by YC partner Trevor Blackwell. They even share YC's building.

Trevor must be half insane. Those people sitting around laughing with the Anybot is one of the most bizarre things I've seen. Can you imagine working in a factory where your boss roamed around the floors as an Anybot?!

I'm not going to say this isn't a great and sensible product, but it is very weird.

Trevor must be half insane, but that's not the reason why.

I've gathered that long term goal is telepresence robots that can enable transcontinental labor arbitrage. That has the potential to make Trevor, at least in the developed world, one of the most despised people alive. Talk about disruptive.

Just imagine the immense satisfaction of delivering a well executed spinning kick to one of these things when it drives up to you on a Monday morning squeaking "Hey, what's happening?" - ka-zonk!

Which will probably summon a quadro-kill-copter.

Even worse, a HR-drone.

There was a movie fairly recently called Sleep Dealer which incorporated virtual labor as a plot element.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804529/

On a similar note, was the Bruce Willis-starrer "alternate body" movie called Surrogates (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/

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