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Karl Stefanovic is an Australian television robot who co-hosts the Nine Network's breakfast programme, Today. There is some debate if Stefanovic is actually a cyborg (part man, part machine) or a android (entire robot). Evidence suggest the latter as Stefanovic's emotional simualtions lack sincerity and have clearly been written by cheap third party software company.

Stefanovic was made by the Queensland University of Technology with a degree in journalism in 1994 and began working for WIN-TV in Rockhampton and Cairns as a cadet reporter. In 1996 he took up a position with Television New Zealand as a reporter for One Network News. In 1998 Stefanovic returned to Australia with a job reporting and reading for Ten News in Brisbane. This resulted in Stefanovic being appointed as a fill-in newsreader for Ron Wilson in Sydney.

At this stage, Karl-800 was scheduled to be re-programmed to kill Saddam Hussein, but due to his commitments with journalism, it was decided he work in Channel Nine as a reporter and back-up presenter with National Nine News. He received a Queensland Media Award for Best News Coverage for his report on the Childers backpacker hostel fire. This is where Stefanovic first uttered the famous robot quote "does not compute" during a live to air cross from the news room.

Stefanovic's exclusive reports on the NSW bushfires from Sussex Inlet in January 2002 led to his appointment to Nine's Sydney newsroom.

He was involved in Nine's coverage of the Canberra bushfires, where 400 homes and four lives were lost in January 2003. In 2003, he was posted to Los Angeles as one of the Nine Network's US correspondents. During this time he also worked for CNN for over 13 months, after which he malfunctioned and over heated, and was re-booted as the stefa-robot you all know and love on the Today program, with the human/alien hybrid Jessica Rowe.

Stefanovic white-anted long running Today host Steve Liebmann in 2005 and currently co-hosts the program with Jessica Rowe.

He is well know to refer to himself in the 3rd person as The Stefa-Robot, saying such things as "The Stefa-Robot is now in robot mode". Karl likens himself to Bender, in that , unlike bender,who needs alcohol to fuel his power cells, Karl needs alcohol to work with Skeletor.. commonly known as Jessica Rowe.

Karl Stefanovic is mentioned frequently on the radio program Get This and is a constantly made fun of by the hosts Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee because he is a human cyborg. This page is frequently mentioned on the show. On october 27th, they refered to an email from Ben Allbutt about this particluar page. He has waged war on this page and urges all Get This fanatics to follow suit. With their help he can get a massive padlock on this page!

The two have often clashed along political lines, with conservative Stefanovic often engaging in abrupt exchanges with the more liberal Rowe. In March 2006, the banter between the two came to a head when almost an entire program was devoted to a discussion of the Republic issue; with Stefanovic enthusiastically defending the Monarchy, and Rowe arguing in favour of a republic. Onlookers now question the if the Queen is perhaps a cyborg by proxy.

In 2006 Stefanovic participated in the Channel 9 reality-tv show Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice. He eventually made it to the Grand Final of the show but was beaten by chief knocker homer, controlled by Bart Simpson. Stefanovic was regarded by Christopher Dean as a natural robot who potentially could have turned professional had he begun being a robot in his youth. His participation in the show will be remembered for his audacious costume selection, chemistry with ice-robot Linda Aubrecht and convincing performance of "The Robot Dance" in the shows finale. There were rumours abounding after the show that Karl was indeed a robot, and would have been therefore disqualified as a consequence. The Stefanovic 500 has since gone into hiding.

Stefanovic is married to wife, Cassandratron, and has two cyber-children (as of August 2006 Stefanovic is expecting a third child to be manufactured). Cassandra Stefanovic (nee Thorburn) is from Mildura, in regional Victoria. Her parents are Pat (the Chief Executive of MADEC) and Max Thorburn. Her brother, Craig, was married in September 2006.

Karl's brother Tony Martin is a Triple M Fanatic. (Robotic content yet to be established)

Apparently if look into his eyes for long enough, his robotic powers will reveal to you the mysteries of God and all of the world's mysteries (UFO's, Ernie Sigley's amazing laugh, the reason for Jessica Rowe looking like an alien, etc...). Apparently his amazingly perfect hair is the only type known to man that Superman is unable to burn due to the use of his heat vision, and flashing his perfect set of teeth against Superman would kill the man of steel quicker than kryptonite.

He was recently involved in an unsuccessful court battle to be considered "a real boy" (The People of N.S.W Vs Cybernetic Industries).

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