In the home town of Android, a man wanted to show that humans are still top of the heap. He failed.
Encountering a 300 pound crime-fighting robot called K5 in a parking lot in the Silicon Valley town of Mountain View, Cal., home to Google’s Android operating system, the inebriated 41 year old knocked it down and was later arrested by police.
Was it the alcohol that led him to topple the harmless, spinning, whistling machine made by Knightscope?
Perhaps he was angry at the company for an earlier incident when one of the company’s robots, an earlier model, ran over a toddler’s foot at a shopping mall.
He may just have been worried about his job. Robots could take over 38% of U.S. jobs by the 2030s according to a study by consulting firm PwC. One of the industry’s most at risk is food service and the incident occurred near a branch of Taco Bell. Even worse, he may have been a truck driver – among the professions that will be the first to lose their jobs to our future robot overlords.
April 29, 2017 at 12:42AM
from Spencer Jakab
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