It sounds like the quintessential anti-festive story. An animal welfare charity in San Francisco was accused of using a robot – it looks alarmingly like a giant egg – to clear homeless people off pavements in front of its offices. All was not quite as it seemed.
The sinister egg-bot, supposedly on a mission to socially cleanse the streets of undesirables, turned out to be a robotic crime-buster. And since the robot had been on patrol, break-ins, thefts and assaults had gone down, according to the Silicon Valley firm that made it.
The story illustrates a deep-seated fear about robotics and […]
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