The original idea was revolutionary.

The city would build a race of worker robots to perform all the manual labor. To dig the ditches, sweep the streets, haul the trash. The prototype was awe-inspiring. A Michelangeloian specimen of mechanical man. The program was a bold and ground-breaking stride into the future. But true to big city politics and cost cutting beaurocratic red tape, the mass production contract was given to the lowest bidder. Corners were cut, and instead of manufacturing a tireless, mechanized, autonomous work force, the company spat out an army of lazy, stupid robots. The project was discontinued, abandoned as a failure. The expectation of them getting any work done has long since been thrown out the window due to their incompetence and irrational sense of entitlement. Now this sub-culture of slacker robots make up the city’s new minority group. They’re a drain on the economy and an eyesore on the landscape. The humans have a word used to describe these mechanical losers. An ugly and incendiary word.

SHMOBOTS