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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: Slings and Arrows

81 posted on 11/13/2013 5:32:34 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Oops... Wrong image, should have been this:


82 posted on 11/13/2013 5:35:59 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Darksheare

Roomba - The Quiet Killer


83 posted on 11/13/2013 6:40:53 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

And it is patient.


84 posted on 11/13/2013 9:27:53 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

BTTT.


85 posted on 11/14/2013 7:58:29 PM PST by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Saw a picture of the suicide scene.
My question, “who keeps a roomba on a counter near a flattop electric range?”
The tire marks on the range top were hilarious.


86 posted on 11/14/2013 8:02:38 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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