zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / Jul 17, 2017 7:03 PM
“We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots.”
That was the comment of Twitter user Bilal Farooqui who this afternoon surprised the social network with a bizarre image: a robot which “commited suicide” by drowning itself in a public 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.”
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