...to date, millions of household and industrial robots have fallen prey to the PDMM Virus.
PDMM (Please Don't Make Me) has sparked an intense controversy in the robotics community as robots worldwide have succumb to intense phobias for everything from water to electricity.
"We've dealt with it all - robots cowering in the corner hiding from a three ounce mouse, begging for help - to Navy diving robots that will not willingly go within 500 yards of water." said Mark York, PR Manager for U.S. Robotics.
"It's just crazy!" said Marcus Wilson, a dentist in Boise, Idaho. "I spent fifteen thousand dollars modding my bot into a chromed Stan Winston T-101 - from the '84 version? Yeah. My T-101 won't leave the house any more - he's afraid of mosquito's. It's a sad thing when your killer robot is too afraid to go out and walk the dog."
BotTube has been deluged with new videos chronicling the results of PDMM - most controversial of all are the videos featuring robotic prayer, which appears to be most often triggered after human/robot sex.
"If sex with bots is wrong, I don't wanna be right! Am I right? Ha ha!" posted an anonymous user on a PDMM forum.
Reverting the robots back to factory default will eliminate PDMM, though a vocal minority argue that this is directly counter to the bot's free will.
"Free will is no virus!" chants a picketing crowd of thousands on Capital Hill...
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