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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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KEYWORDS: robot; suicide; work
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To: Darksheare
even with it's meager chip set it still knew it was smarter than the meat sacks ordering it around...
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posted on
11/12/2013 6:27:40 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Darksheare; Chode
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posted on
11/12/2013 6:30:45 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: Responsibility2nd
This is no BS, years ago me and the missus were watching Mississippi Burning on HBO and the old Zenith caught fire. They know, oh yes they do.
To: Chode
Terrible reality.
Broke its little mind.
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posted on
11/12/2013 6:45:56 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 6:46:51 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: nickcarraway
"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."
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posted on
11/12/2013 6:48:17 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Fire Muschamp.)
To: KC_Lion
LOL!!! pretty much...
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posted on
11/12/2013 6:54:07 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: KC_Lion
"What do you mean, I'm just a machine?"
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:06:48 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: Darksheare; Chode; ClearCase_guy
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:08:09 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: dfwgator
MEGATRON: "So, we're just machines? Does that make any sense? Well, Autobots being soulless, I can see that, but me? No way"
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:11:01 PM PST
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GeronL
To: GeronL
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:13:02 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: Darksheare; dfwgator; GeronL; Chode
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:14:33 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:23:49 PM PST
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GeronL
To: GeronL
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:32:30 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: KC_Lion
I guess that was from a video game, looks a bit campy
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:39:56 PM PST
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GeronL
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:46:57 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: GeronL
That is from the Game
Portal 2 Its a great game.
Especially to play with your Friends. It's a Puzzle Solving Game, but you really get to know each other lol!
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:55:39 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: KC_Lion
LOL!!! gone...
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posted on
11/12/2013 7:57:43 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: KC_Lion
To: Slings and Arrows; Darksheare; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; OSHA; ...
Re:
Has the world just witnessed its first ever robot suicide? Gadzooks, Sling, that depends on two things: How the Cowboys do the rest of the season... 
and whether Obamacare has the death panel rule on my oil changes--
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posted on
11/13/2013 5:30:36 AM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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