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| NBC Staff and a Naked Tony Dungy Robot During Happier Times in 2009 |
NBC producer Fred Gaudelli spoke frankly to CHN about the incident, “We tried to limit use of the Dungy Robot to statistical assessment. As time went on viewers didn’t seem to take offense to the robots lack of human eye movement, facial cohesion, or mind boggling awkwardness. I think we got cocky and just rode that robot until it failed”.
NBC will replace the injured Rodney Harrison and Bob Costas with back-up robots for 3-4 weeks but promises to phase out the use of all future robots with the exception of the current Jay Leno model which isn’t scheduled to be scrapped until the spring of 2014.






