Good headline, that.
Very strange Aussie fellow, obviously wanting to end it all, who took the long-winded approach and built a robot to pull the trigger.
The Gold Coast News website doesn't, as yet, state whether the robot will be tried in a groundbreaking court case involving many Physics / AI experts...
Manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility?
http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/03/19/9039_gold-coast-top-story.html
http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/03/20/9063_gold-coast-news.html