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They’re here and they are ready.
A scene out of the movie Terminator just happened for real. A robot killed a contractor at one of Volkswagen’s production plants in Germany, the automaker said.
>Robot grabs; crushes man
?SYNTAX ERROR
INITIATING CRUSH SEQUENCE…COMPLETE
READY.
>_
But… Asimov’s first law.
Obviously, it had a defective positronic brain and the First Law did not imprint properly.
And so it began.
Not the first time. According to this article, there have been 33 deaths caused by robots in the last thirty years. The article describes some of the incidents. Honestly, some are caused by human error, such as not making sure the machinery is turned off before entering the red zone.
Te red zone is for loading and unloading; the white zone is for disposal of meat puppets…
Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone shit again.
True, but this is the first time the robot was saying “Exterminate! Exterminate!” during the killing.
ok- now I can’t stop laughing.
Was it a Hyperdyne Systems 120-A2?
Well, that explains it then. The A2s always were a bit twitchy.
And now that it has tasted human blood, Stephen King’s “The Mangler” has been reclassfied as a documentary.
I once took a tour of a large postal facility. The guide pointed out a robot cart that transported mail from one section to another, without a driver. “And it’s perfectly safe, because it’s programmed to stop when it senses anything in front of it. See?” And he stood there as the cart came closer, and closer, and closer…
Finally, he decided to quit playing chicken with it and leaped out of the way. It never stopped.
I always think of that when I hear how much safer driverless cars are going to be.
I worked at a defense contractor that had an automated cart for delivering the mail, called Norman* I know that it stopped when something got in front of it, because I saw it happen. Good to see we were ahead of the post office in that regard.
Almost fifteen years later I was back at that company, now in a different location. They’d moved over a lot of their things, including the pictures from the walls, and – I was surprised to learn – Norman. He didn’t run anymore (he required a special magnetized track that had been laid down under the carpeting, in order to know where to go, and they didn’t have it at the new facility), but it was kinda nice to see that he was still there.
*It was a Mailer named Norman. So you couldn’t help but get the joke, Norman sported a large photo of Norman Mailer on the front, as if the writer had been reincarnated as a big boxy workhorse of a robot.
Susan Calvin can fix it! All those German robots will be calling her Mommy!
I figured if anybody would be the first to get whacked, it would’ve been Dr. Smith. That guy really pushed his luck.
Has Robot Arm got an alibi?
Neither rain nor sleet nor morons blocking my way…
“Like everything else in life, crushing is just a primitive, degenerate form of bending”