Robot vacuum cleaner 'eats' South Korean woman's hair as she lay asleep

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Or say states the first of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

In what may have been the first shots fired in a impending cybernetic revolt, however, a robot vacuum cleaner in South Korea has attempted to "eat" its owner's hair as she lay innocently napping on the floor of her Changwon home. 

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The 52-year-old victim, whose identity has been withheld for her own protection, was roused from her sleep after the dustbusting decepticon began to suck up her hair.

Unable to disentangle herself from the "bowels" or the machine, South Korea's Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper reports that she called emergency services with a “desperate rescue plea” before finally being freed by paramedics.

Although she has since been delivered to safety, the fate of her robotic assailant remains unknown.

[Image via Yonhap]