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This might kill like three toddlers if one is installed in every home in America.

It sits several feet above the ground and is attached to the ceiling ffs. Unless you have the world's most clueless toddler who waits for this to fall just to sprint full speed at multiple ropes and you just so happened to install the winches with concrete bolts it seems pretty unlikely.

The toddler:robot win ratio is gonna be like 100:1.

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Locally, a two year old managed to kill himself by getting tangled in window-blind string. All toddlers are clueless, and no one wants theirs to be the outlier.

I agree with the rest of your comment but

>The toddler:robot win ratio is gonna be like 100:1

is beyond unacceptable for a consumer product.

Maybe this is too generous. If the robot has a 4kg payload the toddler would really have to throw the fight, any toddler fatalities would probably be because they ripped the whole thing out of the ceiling and touched an exposed wire.

My point remains that even a toddler would reliably beat this in a fight.

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