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Robot Runs Amok, Sends Man to Hospital on a Stretcher at Robot Fair
Nanfang, the ^ | 21 November 2016

Posted on 11/25/2016 7:20:05 AM PST by Lorianne

In what some Chinese news sites are calling a “first of its kind”, a person has been injured by a robot that malfunctioned, causing him to be sent to hospital.

It happened Thursday afternoon at the 18th annual Shenzhen High-Tech Fair, where much of the country’s newest technology gets put on display.

A robot nicknamed “Little Tubby” is being blamed for getting out of control and smashing a glass display case and injuring a person who had to be taken to hospital on a stretcher.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenanfang.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: robots
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1 posted on 11/25/2016 7:20:05 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

And so it begins........duh, duh, duhhhhhhh.....


2 posted on 11/25/2016 7:23:06 AM PST by reed13k
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To: Lorianne
Most Advanced A.I. Robot Admits It Wants to Destroy Humans
3 posted on 11/25/2016 7:26:05 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Lorianne

The 3 laws are perfect.


4 posted on 11/25/2016 7:27:52 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: Lorianne

5 posted on 11/25/2016 7:28:36 AM PST by Preston Manning (When standing on the edge of a cliff, a "giant step forward" is NOT progress!)
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To: Lorianne

Have we learned nothing from Westworld?


6 posted on 11/25/2016 7:29:06 AM PST by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: VRW Conspirator

But apparently the “three laws” do not apply to the AI that eventually becomes Skynet.

It is begun....


7 posted on 11/25/2016 7:32:47 AM PST by alloysteel (Je suis deplorable.)
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To: Lorianne

Little Tubby....Hahahaha.

I denounce myself to our robot overlords.


8 posted on 11/25/2016 7:33:01 AM PST by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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To: Lorianne

My job is getting busier.

I’m a Blade Runner.

“Little Tubby” was a pleasure model.

I gave him a Voight-Comp and he almost passed......as a fireplug.


9 posted on 11/25/2016 7:36:28 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Lorianne

ED 209

10 posted on 11/25/2016 7:37:32 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Lorianne

I guess they forgot the behavioral inhibitors.

“.... That could never happen now, with our behavioral inhibitors. Impossible for me to harm or, by omission of action, allow to be harmed, a human being.”

(Bishop, in Aliens)


11 posted on 11/25/2016 7:41:11 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Lorianne

Puts this earlier story in a new light: “Sex Robots Are Coming” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3432624/posts


12 posted on 11/25/2016 7:42:14 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Lorianne

He didn’t like them putting him on display and calling him “Tubby.”


13 posted on 11/25/2016 7:43:36 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Lorianne
Zappa - Tink Walks Amok

Chad Wackerman on drums.

14 posted on 11/25/2016 7:46:34 AM PST by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: Politically Correct
Little Tubby!

I just KNEW he was a robot!


15 posted on 11/25/2016 7:48:42 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Lorianne

Worse that I thought!

A mutiny of mutant robots!

An epidemic of runaway robots!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3496199/posts


16 posted on 11/25/2016 7:53:26 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: Lorianne
Anyone remember "Captain Video" and "I,Tobor?"


17 posted on 11/25/2016 7:59:49 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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18 posted on 11/25/2016 8:43:26 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Lorianne

Mad genius robot scientist no the risk.
There is always the possibility that robots will run amok.


19 posted on 11/25/2016 8:46:35 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: Lorianne

no = know


20 posted on 11/25/2016 8:47:57 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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