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				As a non-American, the fact that the US celebrates Labor Day by taking a vacation has always been of interest and amusement to me. But why stop with just taking one day off? If there's one thing that science fiction has taught us, it's that technology exists to create machines that will not only do our jobs for us, but do so with comfortingly human characteristics. We think that it's time to salute some of the brave fictional mechanoids that make future humanity much, much lazier.				<a href="http://io9.com/5043581/why-not-let-robots-take-the-strain" title="Click here to read more about Why Not Let Robots Take The Strain?">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:45 PDT]]></pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme McMillan]]></dc:creator>
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