Robot Taught To Provide Basic Human Need

Everyone is talking about this video which shows a robot bunching a pair of socks. I don’t get it! I mean, I guess it’s cool that we have built a robot that can pair socks together-I know it’s a task I have a difficult time with-but the way everyone’s going on about this video you’d think it was the funniest thing in the world. I can’t understand what’s so amusing. Is it the robot’s appearance? Something about the color of the socks? The way it seems as if the robot is stroking the pole up and down, starting with the head and then moving more forcefully to the base and repeatedly rubbing until you imagine that the rod reaches climax and shoots its hot pole ejaculate into the waiting sock? The fact that the video is sped up? It’s a total mystery to me. [Via]