J.P. Morgan Chase, The Federal Reserve Bank, Bernard Madoff? No, no my friends, there is a much more fundamental cause of our current global financial doldrums. In a journalistic coup, Evil Robot News has scooped the world media establishment in discovering that the source of all of this disaster is, indeed, Evil Robots!

The sinister Kuka Robot, at the heart of the financial system "down under" and aided by the insidious co-crafters of the future robot mind, Microsoft Corporation and their wicked voodoo application, Excel...


"If you visit the Royal Australian Mint you will see very busy, large, orange Kuka Titan robot, tipping coin blanks for delivery to the presses, tipping finished coins for packing into boxes and impressing visitors.

Dale Rogers, project manager for the Materials Handling and Warehousing Project (MHWP) at the Mint, said that until this year the materials and warehousing functions were carried out in a very manual fashion with very little technology bar Microsoft Excel."

The cold robotic pincer of international finance!

Full Story at Computer World