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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Technological Unemployment: Those Dang Robots Are After Our Jobs!!
 
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Slanderer
May 6, 2007

Doctor Malaver posted:

Why is that man so mean to the robot? The robot is just trying to pick the box. :(

Turns out that people are mean and rude as heck!!!

http://qz.com/475975/video-robot-is-bullied-by-children-so-scientists-teach-it-how-to-react/

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The researchers dropped a remotely-controlled Robovie 2 robot on a mall in Osaka and studied how passers-by interacted with it, IEEE Spectrum reported. They found that for the most part, people got out of the way of the robot when it asked them to do so.

But when a gang of children happened upon the bot, they tended to be little monsters. They hit, kicked, and verbally abused the (admittedly quite creepy-looking) Robovie—with one child apparently calling the robot an “idiot” eight times.
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