Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness found decapitated (2015)

Post by dang » Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 7:24 PM UTC

jondiggsit wrote: post #37

danso wrote: post #21

Vandalism is an ugly crime, but I'm viewing this incident as someone who (now) knows what Hitchbot was and what its creators' intentions apparently were. We don't know that this was the case for whoever destroyed Hitchbot. Maybe society was substantially more innocent/optimistic about technology in 2015, but today I'm not surprised when some people become hostile at the thought of robots roaming around taking photos…

Really? You think society has devolved in the last three years? A backlash against robots? Maybe you watched Interstellar too many times. A more likely scenario is a bunch of teenagers saw it (it does look kind of dumb after all) and kicked the crap out of it, all the while laughing. This isn't a reflection on our society, robots, or anything else. It was most likely a few people having fun. What I do see as a reflec…

Post by danso » Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 7:36 PM UTC

ConfusedDog wrote: post #28

Could be the police did this? Trying to search for dangerous substance or devices. I'd wary about having an unidentified object lying on the roadside asking to be picked up... who knows what it could be? Could be drug transporter or bioweapon or IED...