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| Orwellian clip shows dystopian robot horror that has become new normal in crime-plagued Los Angeles |
| 2025-07-17 |
| [DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Los Angeles is now so rough tech companies are buying dummies to use as fake homeless people while testing their new delivery robots. The wheeled devices have been filmed maneuvering past mannequins sprawled on the City of Angels' grimy sidewalks while being tested by food delivery firm Serve Robotics. In the latest footage, a stunned witness shared a clip of the device after catching Serve Robotics engineers testing their device on the sidewalk. But the witness quickly realized the dummies were a good idea - because in real life the little robots will regularly have to maneuver LA's thousands of vagrants. 'My mind went straight to, yeah they better learn how to dodge all that,' he said. 'It's more important to be safe and go around and dodge lawsuits.' The footage circulated across social media as people were left in awe at what passes for normal in LA in 2025. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 Roombas ingest hair, skin dander, nail clippings, and are thus acquiring a taste for human flesh. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-07-17 16:47 |
| #5 Skid give it 5 years and then a rebuild and you have a pleasant neighborhood |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2025-07-17 13:47 |
| #4 Not a good look |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-07-17 12:05 |
| #3 Catch someone stealing, hang them immediately from the nearest streetlamp or tree. Solve that problem real quick. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2025-07-17 10:58 |
| #2 Surprised it hasn't been stripped down to its chassis and sitting on a concrete block. Food delivery? Right, till the homeless loot it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-07-17 10:46 |
| #1 How about agreeing. ANYONE developing AI minds and AI controlled devices, MUST be required to hard code and embed, something like the 3 laws of robotics ? Which were developed over 80 years ago. Now, imagine the royalties the Asimov related family would collect. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-07-17 06:44 |