It’s easy to get downtrodden about the world. For one robot, it seems that things got a bit too much, and it appears to have thrown itself into a fountain in a somber act of robot suicide. The robot was a Knightscope K5, employed as a security robot at communications agency GMMB in Washington DC. These robots are equipped with cameras to provide a more physical presence than a regular security camera.
They’re also designed to move autonomously, which seems to be how this robot ended up in a fountain. A few posts on Twitter documented the final moments of this K5 robot, as it ended up face down in a watery grave. RIP K5. We barely knew ye. Or maybe it was just being baptized. This isn’t the first time K5 has run into trouble. In April, a drunk man managed to knock down one of the 300-pound robots. And last year, a K5 accidentally ran over a 16-month-old toddler and then drove off, in what’s surely one of the first robotic hit and runs.
Credits: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/security-robot-commits-suicide-in-fountain-because-the-world-is-terrible/
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