Study finds that robots can pressure people to do risky things | Boing Boing
“The robot made me do it”
The results showed that the group who were encouraged by the robot took more risks
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Finger, hammer, nail. What could go wrong?
The Tragedy of Droids
Second class citizens of the Star Wars franchise
Pray for Robots
I’m guessing, like all of us, Pope Francis is concerned robots might one day take his job.
Bonfire stories
Telexistence
Telexistence, a robotic startup with a clever name, wants to reduce human to human interactions for supermarket employees and make sure putting back sugar drinks on their shelves is more complicated than it looks, but that’s what capital wants.
Robot dog fight
Police robot tells woman who wants to report a crime to “step out of the way”
[S]he ran over to the park’s police robot to push its emergency alert button.
“I was pushing the button but it said, ‘step out of the way,’” Guebara said. “It just kept ringing and ringing, and I kept pushing and pushing.”
She thought maybe the robot, which stands about 5 feet tall and has “POLICE” emblazoned on its egg-shaped body, wanted a visual of her face, so she crouched down for the camera. It still didn’t work.
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Amid the scene, the robot continued to glide along its pre-programmed route, humming an intergalactic tune that could have been ripped from any low-budget sci-fi film.
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North Carolina couple call cops on midnight intruder that turns out to be their robot vacuum
Sensitive skin robot triggers awkward touching from humans
