You can't make this stuff up. "Man arrested for allegedly assaulting a robot security guard in Silicon Valley... One man in Mountain View, California, this week decided to take out what we can only imagine to be his fears about the impact of increased automation on the human workforce by allegedly assaulting an innocent robot in a Silicon Valley parking lot... The assailant allegedly knocked over K5 [the robot], which immediately registered the assault and sounded an alarm. The suspect attempted to run but was ultimately arrested by Mountain View Police... K5 reportedly suffered only superficial injuries, including a number of scratches on its back, during the attack. “I think this is a pretty pathetic incident because it shows how spineless the drunk guys in Silicon Valley really are because they attack a victim who doesn’t even have any arms,” a Mountain View resident told ABC7 News... While man-on-robot crime is still something of a new phenomenon, it is not totally without precedent... Personally, we would steer clear of fighting with robots, regardless of the circumstances..." http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/k5-robot-assault-arrests/
"assaulting an innocent robot"? "a victim who doesn't even have any arms"? Next they'll be calling it a hate crime to destroy a "thing" A robot is an it. These choices of words sets a bad precedent. This is vandalism or destruction of property. This is not an assault or attacking a victim. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
"Dubai’s “real Robocop” starts its active duty..." https://www.slashgear.com/dubais-real-robocop-starts-its-active-duty-23485994/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...obocop-starts-work-Dubai-tomorrow-onward.html
Jack, this is called gonzo journalism, and you should simply ignore the hyperbole. But vandalizing property is still a crime. Mrk
"Robot Security Guard "Commits Suicide" In Mall Fountain... The Knightscope K5 security robot was supposed to patrol the Georgetown Waterfront, a ritzy shopping-and-office complex along the Washington Harbour in D.C. Looking like a mutant hybrid of R2D2 and a Dalek, the K5 was built to be a crime-fighting robot that could rove the streets and monitor for suspicious activity. It has been used in some offices and malls across America. But, in the absurdist take of NY Mag, 'the pressure was too much for the rolling robot, which can turn, beep, and whistle in order to maintain order.'... At one point today, it had had enough, rolled into fountain and drowned itself..." http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-17/robot-security-guard-commits-suicide-mall-fountain
"Drowned security robot is gone, but clearly not forgotten.. ...One day after a security robot toppled famously into a water fountain outside an office complex in Washington, an informal memorial was erected Tuesday in honor of the autonomous machine's brief tour of duty. People laid colorful flowers and left behind letters at the spot where the robot had been based at Washington Harbour in Georgetown. “In Loving Memory of our security robot... but more importantly our friend,” one missive read..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ocal-news_robotmemorial-1030pm:homepage/story
"Safe-Cracking Robot Unveiled As Criminal’s Best Friend... A team from the electronics company SparkFun in the US have just unveiled [at DEF CON] their very own robotic criminal mastermind that can crack open a safe all on its own... ...it took the robot a good 30mins to crack the safe..." http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...fe-cracking-robot_uk_597f4b84e4b02a4ebb770a6b
"Robots learned how to write fake Yelp reviews like a human... Researchers at the University of Chicago have trained a neural network, or artificial intelligence system, to write fake reviews on Yelp – and it’s pretty hard to tell them apart from a human review..." http://nypost.com/2017/08/31/robots-learned-how-to-write-fake-yelp-reviews-like-a-human/
It would be nice to have a choice although I think our stupid society is a symptom of human nature that would persist no matter what planet we went to.
This really is not funny, you know they gently ease things like this into society making it look entirely harmless so people will be used to seeing them around then slowly you will see incidents like this used as the reason why security robots need to be fitted with pepper spray guns to protect themselves and just like the cops who did the same thing before them the pepper spray is not used to protect themselves it is used as a torture device to inflict pain on anyone who is non compliant, taking part in demonstrations etc. Then it will be stun grenades, cs gas and other crowd control stuff and tazers and ultimately they will be fitted with guns. Just a matter of time.
"Real Estate Company Is Replacing Agents With Robots..." http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-29/real-estate-company-replacing-agents-robots
A 12-foot robot that can transform into a car with two men inside it, i.e., A "Transformer" https://twitter.com/ABC/status/989498359705690112/video/1
A Security Robot Found Beaten Up and Covered in BBQ Sauce Had it Coming https://nerdist.com/security-robot-beaten-up-bbq-sauce/
I agree. I'm just watching Elysium movie. A scene where robots are hunting people that manged to get to space station reminded me of this article right away. I hope that creating robots more human-like won't at the same time make us more inhuman.
It's not just a lack of compassion it's the warped sense of right and wrong that is so prevalent today and has corrupted our societies at every level. A few weeks ago, an elderly woman who appeared to have some kind of mental disorder and looked homeless and was crying and then laughing and then crying again was sitting on the ground outside a convenience store so I said something about it to the cashier. She said I know but I don't know what I should do, I said maybe I'll go tell her to go to the church across the street they should help her... The cashier said I doubt it, that's where she just came from, they threw her out. I said seriously they threw her out?? She said yeah I know right...
Well, LSD would do that for me, sometimes But maybe she was just freaked by something that went down in the church. At least they didn't burn her. Or put her in a cage. Many people in prison are basically crazy.
