Suicidal Robot?

The link has Adblock blockers so I can't see it.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/7/17/15986042/dc-security-robot-k5-falls-into-water

The article says that "Robbie" was rescued. Is he going to a mental health facility for the "botched" suicide attempt?

When a robot commits sepuku is it a cardinal sin? If they intentionally ingest large volumes of water to the circuit boards, is that also a sin?

Is there self-awareness?

Is there awareness of the steps leading into the fountain? Was there robot safety training prior to release to job duties?

...If they can get him functioning again, can he sue for worker's compensation? Insufficient training? Stress? Disability?

No, he will start over with no memory of his former AI life, other than a subroutine that makes him phobic of stairs into a fountain, and water in general.

Atlast, he had found his worst enemy...water. AI must have been working well for him.

So much for AI Well at least the (human) security guards still have a job for awhile

"Life! Don't talk to me about life." - Marvin

Marvin the paranoid android

Only if its last words were, "Goodbye, cruel world." ...

Seems to have some shortcomings in the sensor department...WTH even the Roomba has cliff sensors.....Not only that, but it runs over kids and can't duck a punch haha....

https://homesupport.irobot.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/639/~/roomba-500-error-6%3A-%E2%80%9Cplease-inspect-and-clean-roomba%E2%80%99s-cliff-sensors.%E2%80%9D

"Bwahahaha: it's all part of the plan to lol lull them into a false sense of security"

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life. --CAPTAIN KIRK, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Hopefully he wasn't a Tesla driver.

Not to worry, I hear a reboot is in the works....

He looks different....sinister....evil

Yes it's,, Pet Sematary 5 , Robbies' return....

Remember you must neutralize evil,,,,or you will be destroyed!!!

uhho

Yes, but Robbie is not (yet) equipped with toilet plunger. I always felt Daleks to be ridiculous, but there again I am The Doctor around these parts.

In the new revival, they've done some things to make Daleks scary again:

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Guard: "What are you going to do with that, plunge me to death?"

Dalek: *Jabs 'plunger' up at guard's face, plunger head 'morphs' to provide perfect seal around the guards face as the Dalek suctions the guard's lungs out of his body⁽¹⁾*

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Teenager: "Oi! Look at the helpless pepperpot! Can't get us up here, guess you never heard of stairs before!"

Dalek: "EL-E-VATE!" *Dalek levitates up to the upper landing, fliying over the guard rail to pursue the teenagers.* (Note: the Dalek does NOT follow the path of the stairs, but rises through the central open space of the stairwell.)

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And yes, Daleks still have the same vocal range they had in the past, from shouting all the way to screaming at the limits of their electronic voice modulators. Some day they'll learn there are more punctuation marks than just the exclamation point, and that there is a whole SET of lower-case letters they've never used.

Notes:

1. That's what I guess happened, the edges of the 'plunger head' were rippling like the foot of a Sea Cucumber, and the guard's face was all red where it was under the plunger, so 'tearing his lungs out' seems to fit for how excruciatingly painful it looked on screen.

Just lovely, but still no match for a Sonic screwdriver...

They must work on new a design. At far..that looks like a giant lips stick. Little farther ... it does look like a gigantic ....d**do,

Kind of figures you would go there...do you dream of sex toys at night, or just play with them?

Let's be civil here, what one or more people do in the privacy of a bedroom is just between them and the ostrich.

_{(Heh, heh, now to see how bizarre everyone gets trying to work out what the ostrich is doing there...)}

Thank you. I do not allow disparaging remarks toward The Doctor to go by carte blanche'.

As to the care and feeding of an ostrich, I presume intimacy is not what is required.

I'm saying nothing, I'm just going to let the ideas bubble up from the dark corners of your own mind.

That's been me Evil Scheme^TM all along, to trick people into THINKING, thus destroying what whey apparently hold so precious, their IGNORANCE and PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS! Muahahahaha!

This is your mind (warped). This is your mind on better living through chemistry - immeasurable, and untrainable.

You have get to grasp the full scope of my master plan, an Educated and Informed Voting Populace! No longer will raising fears of the 'foreigner'/'minority'/'other' sway the minds of the People, everyone will be able to thing for themselves, and to see through the political lies. It'll be glorious, like a college campus from sea to shining sea, a utopia, an endless Spring Break! With no hangovers!

It went fishing for change.

Nice one!

Actually, this is a suicidal Robot:

Good example, but that one is hell bent on taking someone (or something) with it!

Suicidal, or Homicidal?

Or possibly just bat-guano insane: "My job is to save human lives. I perform my job by taking human lives. I kill humans to protect humans. I protect humans by killing humans. To protect I must die. Death is my only purpose in life. I kill to protect, I protect by killing ... Death is my purpose ... I must kill those I protect."

As usual you have gone over the edge again. Take the rest of the day off, OK?

You need to pay more attention to recent police procedures. Call 911, get shot by the cops.

If white, was the color of the hair, would the robot, be a suicidal blonde ?

No. Those white-haired ones are the ones that make it to the finish line.

Now, the platinum-blonde ones, those are the homicidal ones, especially with blue eyes (cameras).

There is an, as yet, unconfirmed report that (Robbie)

had become despondent with (his/her/it's) purpose in (life),

burst-tweeted that there had to be more than just a single (Mall),

and was running away to join the Circus, but

quickly fell (out of his element ?)...

Alas, poor (Robbie), farewell, for we hardly knew ya...

Now, get outta my way! I know there'e another sale in here somewhere...