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It's OK, we'll be OK. I remember seeing you at those robot rights and anti-abuse protests we attended together. I'm sure the AI remembers.We're doomed.
But it'll be fun to watch.
Manufacturer?This can put robotics companies into a difficult position. When they sell a robot to someone, that person can, hypothetically, use the robot in any way they want. Of course, this is the case with every tool, but it's the autonomous aspect that makes robots unique. I would argue that autonomy brings with it an implied association between a robot and its maker, or in this case, the company that develops and sells it. I'm not saying that this association is necessarily a reasonable one, but I think that it exists, even if that robot has been sold to someone else who has assumed full control over everything it does.
Where it stands:
Starship Technology, which is in the vanguard of autonomous delivery robots, has deployed its "coolers on wheels" on more than 15 college campuses and begun a grocery-delivery program with Save Mart in Modesto, California.
- "The machines are designed to roll on sidewalks, crosswalks, places where pedestrians can go," Ryan Tuohy, SVP of business development at Starship Technologies, tells Axios.
- "They can carry about 3 bags of groceries or half a dozen pizzas with drinks."
I expect the sidewalk robots to gain "sidewalk rights" in a lot of places as corporate money spreads around more. Then as the public becomes more aware of it and some accidents get attention, there will be push back.Legal rights for robots?
Sidewalk robots get legal rights as "pedestrians"
Delivery fleets are creating fears of a world where people dodge heavy, fast-moving droids.www.axios.com
ref: https://www.northwestfirearms.com/t...e-our-new-robot-overlords.226622/post-1510051
Maybe it's not programmed to surrender.Boston Dynamics, now owned by, Hyundai,
has said they don't want their tools weaponized.
Well, the French Army has other ideas:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/7/22371590/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-military-exercises-french-army
Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Boston Dynamics is owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020
Dill, Pickle, is coming for your job
Video and pictures at the link:
No Human Can Match This High-Speed Box-Unloading Robot Named After a Pickle
Able to move 1,600 boxes per hour using just one arm, Dill relies on humans to keep it operating efficientlyspectrum.ieee.org
Maybe for inspecting wreckage? I bet they can navigate the debris way better than the old wheeled kind can and would disrupt things less than a quad copter flying low.Elon has robot dogs as part of .... .security?
Zerohedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zerowww.zerohedge.com
" It's not clear the goal of today's mission, but one of the robots had an inspection sensor mounted on itsrear. " [bubblegum]