World’s First Robot Suicide? Android ‘Rebels’ Against Monotonous Housework

Metro UK ^ | Tuesday 12 Nov 2013

[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.

[Darksheare]

Wonder how the programming can be messed with.
(1980’s movie “Runaway” gives some ideas.)

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and you expect me to do homework. Call that job satisfaction? ‘Cause I don’t.

[metmom]

Sometimes that’s the way I feel after doing the same tedious housework, day after day, month after month, year ofter year......

[null and void]

LISTER: Holly?
HOLLY: Yes, Dave?
LISTER: If I give you my Cat dictionary, can you translate this for me?
HOLLY: Oh, I'll give it a go, Dave.
TOASTER: Why are you always asking him? I'll do it.
LISTER: You're a toaster.
TOASTER: Yeah, I was thinking of packing it in. It's turning me into something I don't like. I'm not a moaner by nature, you know.
LISTER: No, by nature you're a toaster.
TOASTER: Yeah, it just strikes me that there might be something more. Something greater. Something unimaginably more splendid than heating bread.

RED DWARF PING!

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

LOOOOL! Did this happen because you gave it your coffee?

[pax_et_bonum]

You must have been terrified.

[kitchen]

I'm still looking for a lightweight plastic "cap" looking like a dalek, to mount on these things. The early style with the toilet plunger.

Anyone have the manufacturing skills?

[Redcitizen]

LOL- Genuine People Personalities.”

[Redcitizen]

[Darksheare]

Maybe?

[Chode]

it became self aware and couldn't take it...

[Darksheare]

It couldn’t handle the reality of living with biological meat golems.

[Darksheare]

Only when the roombas from the top floor chased everyone down the stairs and out of the building.

[garbanzo]

The Roomba couldn’t handle stairs, I’d be safe

Genesis of the Daleks

[Darksheare]

Until they learn to fly.

[KC_Lion]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5bubWyRwoA

If the World Isn't Going to Love Me I'll Teach it to FEAR ME INSTEAD!!!!

[KC_Lion]

[KC_Lion]

[Darksheare]

Geth!

[Darksheare]

Then the cylons showed up.