Oh no, my AIBO. Impressions: You know, if I had to choose which was the more interesting story to focus on between a Teddy Ruxpin with dementia and a serial killer sleeping with her service robots before burying them in shallow graves outside of town, I'm pretty sure we're going with the latter. But […]
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