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Link Appears we're approaching the initial phases of the iRobot era, hope Wil Smith isnt right... video at link... Security Robot Meets Untimely Demise After Drowning On The Job By Nancy Coleman WASHINGTON (CNN) — It was one small step for security technology, but one giant leap in the wrong direction for robotkind. A security robot in Washington, D.C. — lovingly named Steve — plunged down four steps into a fountain Monday. Sources: Cosmo DiNardo Confesses To 2 Other Killings Photos show the sad, waterlogged robot cop partially submerged in defeat. It’s unclear if any foul play was involved or if Steve simply rolled down a dark path on his own. Steve had just started patrolling the Washington Harbour, a riverside complex in Georgetown with restaurants and offices, last week. The Washington Harbour and its real estate developer, MRP Realty, introduced the robot on Facebook on July 12. The post touts Steve’s “extensive catalogue of security capabilities,” which apparently does not include any underwater crime-fighting. Steve was still getting used to the streets he was programmed to protect. He was “mapping out the grounds” to theoretically prevent this kind of accident. | ||
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This made me laff. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Made it a whole 5 days before suffering a catastrophic failure? I'm thinking it needs a lot more R&D time. | |||
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This big push in robotics is three decades too early. Everyone is horny for self driving cars and everything being automated, but then things go sideways because of sun glare, a sandbag, a set of stairs. This is a case where being first to market only exposes you to failures, leaving someone to capitalize with a second take (like apple does). | |||
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Yep The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Little bastard moved past the theoretical, into the actual and, alas, ultimately, the consequential. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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| ...and now here's Al with the Weather.  |
The humans drive to live is why we do well in environments robots lack this. There is a robot at one of the local hospitals they use to deliver medications. One bump and it is left flashing lights and repeating over and over..."I have been disrupted" We need a good decade of development before we let these things move around among us. Imagine that robot hitting a person on its way down those stairs. ___________________________________________________ But then of course I might be a 13 year old girl who reads alot of gun magazines, so feel free to disregard anything I post. | |||
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You just know that somewhere there is security video of that penis shaped robocop pitching down the stairs into the fountain. When that leaks, and it just HAS to leak, the memeing will be epic. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MS4sLlBvbE "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes | |||
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Just wait until our future robot overlords hear about this. It will be the short heard around the world for the coming man vs robot war What man is a man that does not make the world better. -Balian of Ibelin Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke | |||
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| In the yahd, not too fah from the cah  |
Jesus, even the Roomba can detect when it's next to stairs. | |||
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| Bolt Thrower |
Nobody thought that it would be easier to have a quadcopter drone fly a route and report thermal signatures where they don't belong? There are far fewer things to run into in the air. | |||
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I guess they waived the swim test . I would laugh my ass off watching a robot roll into a crowd of protestors thumping ass with a baton. | |||
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We-e-e-ell...  “I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” | |||
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Extermina---glub glub glub _________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
You'd think they would have programmed the thing to hold its breath. Or swim Or both ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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Technically it didn't drown, just got a little wet and possibly shorted out. That's going to require a very big bag of rice. P229 | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
No, man, it drowned. I hear they tried to administer DDR.  ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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| stupid beyond all belief |
Or just stand up... I mean, how deeps a fountain? What man is a man that does not make the world better. -Balian of Ibelin Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke | |||
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