By <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/Author/93">Lewis Page</a> -<br><br>In a development whose potential sinister consequences would be difficult to exaggerate, a number of major US new organisations have banded together in an alliance for the purpose of developing news-gathering robots.<br><br>Nor is this some sort of HuffPost blogswarm news aggregation scrap-o-matic system: this plan would see actual mobile robots leaving the office and getting out and about finding things out, the way meatsack journalists used to before Twitter.<br><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/06/major_us_news_organisations_to_develop_robot_journalists/">READ MORE ON THE REGISTER</a>