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Humanoid Robot Kicks Small Child in the Stomach During Public Demonstration
Engineers say the robot was functioning “as intended,” though witnesses recall a very different kind of precision in motion.
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I’m not sure what’s inevitably going to spark the great human-robot war that we’ve all seen coming for decades, but one thing is for sure: a video of a robot spin-kicking a little boy in the gut probably won’t be it. Why? Because no one in the video seems to care about the little boy’s well-being, to defend his honor.
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I can’t blame them, because my reaction was to laugh at the little boy’s misfortune, and then again at the robot’s embarrassment and shame over what it did, even though it felt neither embarrassment nor shame. What you’re really seeing is the human handlers’ embarrassment and........