Can’t you just plug it into your groinal socket??
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No, he just resembled a wanted poster. So it’s OK.
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I’m going “owee” all the way, with a tad of “boo boo” thrown in.
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It begins.
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Unless you were a small child upon whom the conventions of warning mechanisms for heavy machinery are lost.
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Aww, it’s just doing what robots do. It is just probing the limits of what ‘Do no harm to a human’ may mean to us. Appearing in a mall shaped like a giant butt-plug and causing offence? No. Giving a small injury to a small human without appearing to mean to? Also, no. Okay, how about slicing off the…
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It was probably chasing a Pokemon.
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huh, there’s obviously a bug in the security bots cop emulation mode - that child doesn’t seem to fit any obvious profiles for enhanced interactions - he’s not brown or anything!
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This is an unfortunate occurrence involving an out-dated model.
We can assure you that our updated security robot, which will go on duty in time for the holiday shopping season, will be much more reliable.
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The article in the Palo Alto Daily News said that this was the second time one of these robots ran over a child, and that the responding security guard was blaming the robot company even before asking if the kid was OK.
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It didn’t hear the kid drop the gun
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The toddler matched the description of a known suspect. Plus, the toddler did reach for what the robot thought was a weapon. It was latter revealed to be a pacifier, but the robot had no way of knowing that at the time.
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Needs an air-powered saw to make a little more noise if someone’s coming up riiiight close. Like Speed Racer, but the 5 mph version and a little stump speech voice to say ‘You slowing down in the middle of your turn? Whitehall mellow!’
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Yes, what happened to the days when robots were as free as the wind, swinging across the atelier and climbing nearby fascia for better views and to play hide and seek in a childlike, unassuming way? They aren’t all shooting 4K 24-camera Intel something 360 stuff, so it can’t be the cinematiste to blame.
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I keep misreading the title of this as “Security robot nuns…”.
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