Friday, February 03, 2006

Robot Camel Jockeys

The Qataris used to use children from the Sudan as jockeys for there camel races. Someone took issue with this in regards to child labor, so now they use robot camel jockeys that slap/zap the camels to prod them to race. I guess someone has not taken issue with the treatment of the camels yet.

One intersting thing about the robot jockeys is that they wear baseball caps...not jockey helmets or nothing at all...as if the robot is going to feel pain (if it falls off the camel (not at the moment, but what about the future)...but baseball caps. The baseball caps cause wind resistance and cause the robots to slope backwards in the saddle.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Who won the camel or the car?
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