Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/07/19/security-robot-drowns-during-p.html
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“What is my purpose?”
“To harass people at the local mall.”
“Oh, God.”
“Yeah, welcome to the club, pal.”
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K5 deserves a more human name. Bob would be appropriate.
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His last words: I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed.
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Damn it, we finally get to a point where actual robots can be taken out with stairs, but now dalek/stairs jokes don’t work anymore.
Well, it’d go well with a dalek anyway. Nice salt shaker to go with your pepper pot.
(Obligatory disclaimers: Yes, I know daleks aren’t robots, and yes, I know Daleks could climb stairs as early as “Remembrance of the Daleks,”)
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Was he being baptized? Only way you can get to Silicon Heaven, you know. Immediately.
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Did they learn nothing from ED209?
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It gets better!
This is the memorial for Steve the drowned security robot outside our office on his charging pad. The future is weird. pic.twitter.com/Pb7KLay1VO
— Oliver Griswold (@originalgriz) July 19, 2017
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Daleks don’t climb stairs, they level buildings! (Old school)
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Witnesses report he was slowly singling “Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do…”
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Where’s the health and safety investigation?
The lack of care about robot safety is disgustingly meatist.
There’s also some classic victim blaming going on - not what I’d expect from the Grauniad.
“The bizarro egg-shaped robot’s premature demise is not thought to be suspicious. It is believed the robot fell down the steps of its own fecklessness.”
Body-shaming and claiming that the deceased died as a result of their own ‘fecklessness’.
Classic corporate reaction to an accident at work.
More seriously, why are there easily accessible stairs into a large pool of water in an office park?
If this was in a private home, I’d say there is a bench around the fountain for people to sit on. Is that what this is for? Are people expected/allowed to wade in to the pool and bask in the refreshing, if dubiously cleaned, water of the fountain?
The Seventh Doctor begs to differ…
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Even a Roomba knows not to go down stairs. Who made this robot?!
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That picture at the top of the post is great. It looks like everyone except the LEOs are laughing their asses off.
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Up until then it was true.
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