When your teleoperator calls it quits and removes their VR googles, the ghost literally leaves the shell.
A Tesla puppet, obviously constrained to handing out water bottles at some promotional party, got a massive failure and landed flat on its back when its telepresence operator, probably paid minimum wage in country with very little labour laws, decided to remove its gear.
#Fauxtomation at its best.
(source: https://bsky.app/profile/jjvincent.bsky.social/post/3m7hps4h2x22r )
A meme doing the rounds on social media sent me down a rabbit hole of clickbait articles strangely all converging to this ice-cream truck shaped android called Promobot.
The meme mainly emphasized how Promobot made the news in 2019 when their inventor claimed a self-driving Tesla ran over it and “killed” it.
A robot doing seppuku with the help of another robot has quite a bit of meme power, I agree.
It gets strange when you read that Promobot is that same proud Russian droid that recognized and shook hands with Vladimir Putin a few months earlier.
Maybe those two events are related.
But it does not stop here. Promobot was also “arrested” at a political rally and, according to the company recount of the events, the “police tried to handcuff” it. Sure.
It’s that same robot that is sooooo intelligent, it “escaped form its lab” and blocked traffic for a few hours while its creators were busy taking photos of the incident.
You can’t make up this shit.