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World’s First Robot Suicide? Android ‘Rebels’ Against Monotonous Housework
Metro UK ^
| Tuesday 12 Nov 2013
Posted on 11/12/2013 11:20:54 AM PST by nickcarraway
Has the world just witnessed its first ever robot suicide?
Tedious housework was seemingly too much for one cleaning robot to take, when it apparently rebelled and decided to end it all.
The android was given the tiresome task of cleaning up some spilt cereal before it climbed on to a kitchen hotplate where it was destroyed, according to reports in Austria.
It had reportedly grown weary of being forced to clean the same house every day and decided to become a martyr to the robot cause.
‘Somehow it seems to have reactivated itself and made its way along the work surface where it pushed a cooking pot out of the way and basically that was the end of it,’ explained fireman Helmut Kniewasser, who was called to tackle the blaze at Hinterstoder in Kirchdorf.
‘It pretty quickly started to melt underneath and then stuck to the kitchen hotplate. It then caught fire. By the time we arrived, it was just a pile of ash.’
robot A robot (not pictured) took its own life (Picture: File) He added: ‘The entire building had to be evacuated and there was severe smoke damage particularly in the flat where the robot had been in use.
‘It’s a mystery how it came to be activated and ended up making its way to the hotplate
‘I don’t know about the allegations of a robot suicide but the homeowner is insistent that the device was switched off.’
It took an hour to clean and make the building safe. The homeowner plans to sue the robot’s manufacturer.
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To: Darksheare
Where is Wheatley when you need him?
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posted on
11/12/2013 11:55:22 AM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: BikerJoe
No, Steve’s a bit of a lib.
22
posted on
11/12/2013 11:55:47 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: nickcarraway
Just a normal floorcleaning bot. Stove freestanding and normal height.
Do the words “post turtle” ring a bell?
23
posted on
11/12/2013 11:58:13 AM PST
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
To: KC_Lion
These robots are not deciding anything, everyone knows their real master is the cat.
24
posted on
11/12/2013 12:00:08 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: Hardraade
25
posted on
11/12/2013 12:00:37 PM PST
by
GeronL
Shark Cat on a Roomba got a bit famous or something?
26
posted on
11/12/2013 12:02:40 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: Darksheare
Robot suicide.. what next?
Sexy Robots? I give you Cherry 2000
Robot horror movies?
Hardware
Side note: Excellent Soundtrack ;-)
Robot TV shows?
The Jetsons
Really? They started in 1962? The thing I learn from visiting FR.
Madness I tell you!
Madness!
;-)
LOL! I can see the Roomba chasing someone down.
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posted on
11/12/2013 12:08:54 PM PST
by
RikaStrom
("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
To: nickcarraway
The next one will become Skynet.
28
posted on
11/12/2013 12:21:01 PM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Darksheare
With all of these newer and
fancier models out there,
You just don't love me anymore.
29
posted on
11/12/2013 12:22:46 PM PST
by
RedMDer
(Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
To: RikaStrom
I had another version of the roomba attack.
Don’t recall where I stashed it.
30
posted on
11/12/2013 12:27:05 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: RedMDer
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posted on
11/12/2013 12:27:56 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
11/12/2013 12:28:38 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Darksheare; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; OSHA; martin_fierro; NYC GOP Chick; ...
Waiting to hear from the expert...
33
posted on
11/12/2013 12:32:54 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Bender2
Previous post was supposed to go to you.
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posted on
11/12/2013 12:33:43 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Darksheare
35
posted on
11/12/2013 12:35:00 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
To: Dead Corpse
36
posted on
11/12/2013 12:43:09 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: nickcarraway
"Number Five is alive dead!"
To: nickcarraway
M.E by Gary Numan
And M.E. I eat dust
Were all so run down
Id call it my death but Ill only fade away
And I hate to fade alone
Now theres only M.E.
We were so sure
We were so wrong
Now it’s over, but theres no one left to see
And theres no one left to die
Theres only M.E.
Why should I care?
Why should I try?
Oh no, oh no, I turned off the pain
Like I turned off you all
Now theres only M.E.
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posted on
11/12/2013 12:46:49 PM PST
by
Herosmith
("Hindsight alone is not wisdom, And second-guessing is not a strategy." - GWB)
To: Darksheare
They are certainly working on it...
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posted on
11/12/2013 12:48:56 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/12/2013 12:50:36 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(*$17,000,000,000,000* Fear the beards! GO SOX!)
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