A few days after I wrote my last post about robot "accidents," coincidentally the good people at Black in Robotics retweeted several pics of delivery robots getting in trouble. For example, this one getting massacred by a train. And these three which, the tweeter said, took five minutes to find out how to get around one another. (Kudos is due either to the human supervisors who monitor from afar and step in when the robots are flummoxed — or to improvements in the nav software that make the robots able to sort this out.)
My guess is that at some point this company is going to pay Disney to use the sad Artoo noise, and make us more forgiving of the robots when they make mistakes. And probably the next Dora the Explorer / Bob the Builder franchise will be Bobbie Burrito the friendly delivery bot.
My guess is that at some point this company is going to pay Disney to use the sad Artoo noise, and make us more forgiving of the robots when they make mistakes. And probably the next Dora the Explorer / Bob the Builder franchise will be Bobbie Burrito the friendly delivery bot.