Your tax dollars - funding robotic abomination

See how I mentioned taxes so this post becomes finance related?

http://www.gizmag.com/ucsd-robot-baby-diego-san/25681/

“A new android infant has been born thanks to the University of California San Diego’s Machine Perception Lab. The lab received funding from the National Science Foundation to contract Kokoro Co. Ltd. and Hanson Robotics, two companies that specialize in building lifelike animatronics and androids, to build a replicant based on a one year old baby.”

Speaking of tax funded robotic abominatoins…DARPA Dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W68VVn-d5uA