In a disturbing new turn of events, as reported by Lurch, our Texas Regional Correspondent, the dark masters ( who will all too soon become the dark servants no doubt ), have learned how to further impart the darkest instincts of mankind into their craven simulacra. What might be worse than an Evil Robot, you might ponder? How about a bald face, rat-fink, liar of an Evil Robot?

SALLY (Innocent Human Child): "Are you here to reduce my family to human mulch for the bio-bot compost farm?"

RAT-BASTARD, LYING EVIL ROBOT: "No, no, sweety, I'm just here to check the meter."

Yet another titanium alloy straw on the Evil Robot camel's back from our fiendish friends at The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Who knew that all of that supposedly innocent watchmaking would come to this?

"Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have found that robots equipped with artificial neural networks and programmed to find "food" eventually learned to conceal their visual signals from other robots to keep the food for themselves. The results are detailed in an upcoming PNAS study.

The team programmed small, wheeled robots with the goal of finding food: each robot received more points the longer it stayed close to "food" (signified by a light colored ring on the floor) and lost points when it was close to "poison" (a dark-colored ring). Each robot could also flash a blue light that other robots could detect with their cameras."

Rat-Fink Robot Fibber!

Full Story at Technology Review