danger – #SlapMyBot

Don’t what now?

A humanoid robot named Unitree G1 is apparently being mass produced. And the manufacturer thought it was appropriate to add this warning in its video presentation:

*We kindly request that all users refrain from making any dangerous modifications or using the robot in a hazardous manner.

It’s probably the closest thing to a universal robotic device to interact with our anthropocentric world and you expect us not to do dangerous things with it?

I bet that’s probably the first thing we’ll do with it.

In Emergencies, Should You Trust a Robot?

In emergencies, people may trust robots too much for their own safety, a new study suggests. In a mock building fire, test subjects followed instructions from an “Emergency Guide Robot” even after the machine had proven itself unreliable – and after some participants were told that robot had broken down.

People seem to believe that these robotic systems know more about the world than they really do, and that they would never make mistakes or have any kind of fault,
Alan Wagner, a senior research engineer in the Georgia Tech Research Institute