Tianjin robot incident raises alarm over public safety and robotics

It is ridiculous to attribute intent to the motion, but I understand why people do — it really does give the impression of an aggressive, upset human. That’s unfortunate.

Re: Tianjin robot incident raises alarm over public safety and robotics

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Post by cryptoz » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 9:02 PM UTC

Reminds me of that time in Russia at the chess tournament, where they repurposed some industrial robot to play chess and it crushed a kid’s hand.

Also reminds me of when Uber got kicked out of California to test self driving cars, so they moved to Nevada and promptly killed a woman.

I guess it’s not surprising that safety is taking a back seat in robotics development everywhere in the world. It’s a mad race for profits of untold scale. But it would be so great if the companies that win would be the companies that don’t fumble on human safety, taking perhaps a slower approach but one that kills/maims fewer people.

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Post by LVB » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 9:04 PM UTC

I really liked the show "Humans" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_(TV_series)). I feel like we're catching up to that timeline.

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Post by i5heu » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 9:07 PM UTC

What incredible click bait. There is nothing "Incident", "Raising Alarm" or "Shocking" about this.

"Robot in Tianjin stumbles" there i fixed the Title.