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Sensitive skin robot triggers awkward touching from humans

Kiwibots win fans at UC Berkeley as they deliver fast food at slow speeds

The Kiwibots do not figure out their own routes.
Instead, people in Colombia […] plot “waypoints” for the bots to follow, sending them instructions every five to 10 seconds on where to go.

As with other offshoring arrangements, the labor savings are huge. The Colombia workers, who can each handle up to three robots, make less than $2 an hour, which is above the local minimum wage.
Kiwibots win fans at UC Berkeley as they deliver fast food at slow speed

Of Course Citizens Should Be Allowed to Kick Robots

In one incident, office workers bullied an HR chatbot so terribly that management wondered if the workers should be fired.

Using robotic appendices to keep the elderly at work

Japanese researchers build robotic tail to keep elderly upright

Stepped by an adult human

This tiny robot that looks like an insect can be stepped on and still continue to run afterwards.

“I’m not going to kick it, we’re not allowed to do that anymore”

I know you think it’s a head, but it’s really a hand. […] I’m not going to kick it, we’re not allowed to do that anymore.

[audience laughter]
Mark Raibert, CEO Boston Dynamics