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Delivery Robot Dogpiled on the Streets of Philly
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/delivery-robot-philadelphia
It’s tough to be a robot on the mean streets of Philadelphia. Infamous for brutally destroying an experimental hitchhiking robot in 2015, residents in the city of brotherly love are now sharing their sidewalks with a new kind of pedestrian: delivery robots.
A video recorded by Philadelphia street photographer Hugh Dillon late Saturday night shows that the city’s reputation as a haven for robophobia hasn’t improved much over the years. In the 30 second clip, the little bot is kicked, sat on, laughed at, and even humped by a crowd of onlookers as it prattles along to its destination.
Hell yes. Destroy them all.
They've also tried to introduce Waymo self-driving vehicles to Philadelphia, and that's going about as well as you'd expect. The graffiti vandalism has been highly amusing, and I actually have a newfound respect for Amazon drivers for deadass plowing into Waymo cars to knock them off the road.
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/delivery-robot-philadelphia
It’s tough to be a robot on the mean streets of Philadelphia. Infamous for brutally destroying an experimental hitchhiking robot in 2015, residents in the city of brotherly love are now sharing their sidewalks with a new kind of pedestrian: delivery robots.
A video recorded by Philadelphia street photographer Hugh Dillon late Saturday night shows that the city’s reputation as a haven for robophobia hasn’t improved much over the years. In the 30 second clip, the little bot is kicked, sat on, laughed at, and even humped by a crowd of onlookers as it prattles along to its destination.
Hell yes. Destroy them all.
They've also tried to introduce Waymo self-driving vehicles to Philadelphia, and that's going about as well as you'd expect. The graffiti vandalism has been highly amusing, and I actually have a newfound respect for Amazon drivers for deadass plowing into Waymo cars to knock them off the road.
