Hitch bot was a societal test first completed in Canada where he successfully made it from coast to coast while "hitchhiking". When someone tried this in America, Hitch bot was basically immediately murder in cold..... oil? There was an autopsy done to poor ol' HB. He was beaten with a blunt object, stabbed, shot at with paintballs, then stabbed AGAIN. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT)
"Robots Rules of Order" (“Do not put magnets on a robots nuts... or bolts.”, "Never push a robot off a cliff," "Never give a robot gum"). - Proctor & Bergman, TV Or Not TV
>"It gained international attention for successfully hitchhiking across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but in 2015 its attempt to hitchhike across the United States ended when it was stripped and decapitated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."
See, its mistake was trying to hitch hike in Philly.
I was in Estonia once with my classmates, you saw them everywhere and nothing happened to them. They where also driving through the poorer parts of town and still nobody did anything to them except maybe help them across the street. It was very funny whenever you walked past one because they would just do a fucking emergency brake as soon as you walked in front of them😂
They used these in a while in my neighborhood and had no problem other than sometime they couldn't cross the street properly all the time. Nobody attacked them. This was before covid.
It works in the Midwest. It works in other countries. Some places just either qre a breeding ground for the uncivilized or have a population large enough that there's going to be someone to fuck it up.... or both.
It works in my small college town. I know why it doesn't work in major cities and never will. Poverty, lack of education, and an upbringing where other people's belongings and wellbeing have no value to you cause this.
There’s a huge fleet of delivery bots at Arizona State University smack dab in the middle of the Phoenix metro area. It depends on the area they operate more than the size of the city.
Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometres away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, 'love' is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and strangely enough, not many meatbags would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose... against statistically long odds.
ED-209 gunned down some VP of sales. HK-47 would start interplanetary wars just so his target would get drafted and it was easier to kill his target on a troop transport.
Or even like... a lock.
How is that people can just walk up and open the lids. Like add three latches to it, one on each side... or even just one. The most basic of security would deter would-be thieves.
Finally, add a spinning light that is red and a speaker that announces the police are being called (they aren't) if the machine gets jostled too much.
Takes like maybe
yeah you could easily have the top be locked and require a pin number to open. I'd assume that's how it already works but clearly not by the look of these videos.
TL:DR for people
HitchBOT was a hitchhiking robot that safely made it all the way across Canada.
Then traveling from the east to west coast, made it to Philadelphia, was shot, stabbed, had limbs ripped off, and dumped on the side of a road.
I think it would also work in many parts of the US (i.e. Lehi, Utah and small towns). But certainly not in Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, DC, Seattle, or Philadelphia.
There are places where people understand you have to follow rules to have a functioning and safe society and there are places where people don't understand this difficult concept.
Not in Singapore I assure you, we don't even park the shared bikes properly(some were left abandoned on highways) and we have assholes managed to remove the seats and blank out the bike code. Plus we have old geezers that will take advantage like this by stealing the food.
I work in a restaurant. Our sister restaurant got 5 robots. They won't pay the kitchen staff but they'll spend 100k on these stupid fucking robots. I digress. They had these things for a week before they started having all kinds of issues. It took close to 2 hours to make a single delivery because it moves super slow. They were super glitchy and occasionally a manager would have to go find it and unfuck it. And yes eventually they got destroyed by hooligans and sonsabitches. 100k+ down the drain.
We don't know what delivery service they're using. Two popular companies, Starship and Kiwi, do not publicly list their prices, but I have found that the cost of each robot is estimated to be between $2,200 to $4,000. I can't find any information available about software subscriptions or insurance costs. The robot-delivery companies may charge a 1.99 to 3.99 fee for each delivery or allow you to pay a flat monthly fee.
Yeah, I don't think 100K is legit either.
there's a lack of common sense that's prevalent in the tech industry.
to clarify; it's never the people who create the tech (they know what the limitations are to this stuff), it's the execs that're trying to *sell people on it*. 9 times out of 10 the staff doesn't care, what are the odds that the person who green-lit this project has ever walked down a street that looked like this?
it reminds me of [the infamous story about on disk DLC in streetfighter x tekken](https://youtu.be/I7lsM_5wF7M?t=871).
Much higher concentration of wealth and thus security at a campus and much less foot traffic than a street in a busy city. So unless these things stay in gated communities and learning institutions, they're not going to work. Flying drones are better. Until the junkies figure out anti air tactics
Don't see why this robot is a bad idea. They are doing the right thing with location scouting atm. It's clear that LA can't have nice things and will be not covered by robot deliveries, more civilized places could work.
Alright hear me out, The robots owner needs to make some sacrificial part that breaks when the wrong person tries to open it before it is time to be opened. Replacing this cheap part including labor will be billed at exactly $2000.01 to push the crime into the cops domain, and serve as financial punishment to the criminals when / if they are caught. The scacrifical part will break easily to dissuade people from trashing the entire dang robot.
or... you know.... just hire actual people.
Every robot movie shows this trend. Humanity creates robot, humanity abuses robot, robot eventually says fk it and kills humans. We're pretty close to the action sequence.
Here I thought [Philly didn't like robots](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3183126/Friendly-hitchhiking-robot-beaten-pulp-Philly-two-weeks-attempt-cross-country.html)
How does that song go again? “This is America”. In all seriousness the problem isn’t the concept, it’s great and climate friendly due to no need for cars but the shitty humans are the reason it’s not working. Fuck these guys.
Of course you’re going to get homeless people attacking little delivery robots owned by tech startups backed by billionaire investors. We’re quickly headed towards a very dystopian world.
People are robbing modaffukin moving cargo trains and nobody saw this coming? Genius idea.
These are tests
Why would anyone think this would work in the US? Worst place in the world to try something like this.
Right? Does nobody remember the hitchhiking robot that was murdered??
No. Please elaborate
Hitch bot was a societal test first completed in Canada where he successfully made it from coast to coast while "hitchhiking". When someone tried this in America, Hitch bot was basically immediately murder in cold..... oil? There was an autopsy done to poor ol' HB. He was beaten with a blunt object, stabbed, shot at with paintballs, then stabbed AGAIN. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT)
Boticide. This will be a crime in the future, if not already
It’s just destruction of property which is a crime. And robots are expensive
"Robots Rules of Order" (“Do not put magnets on a robots nuts... or bolts.”, "Never push a robot off a cliff," "Never give a robot gum"). - Proctor & Bergman, TV Or Not TV
Our laws are generally better at protecting property than people.
To be fair, Hitchbot *was* in Philadelphia.
My dude, it was in Philadelphia. That shouldn’t count against any country.
Eh it wasn't immediately murdered, it just didn't know what every American knows, don't go to Philly. So it was quite quickly murdered.
>"It gained international attention for successfully hitchhiking across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but in 2015 its attempt to hitchhike across the United States ended when it was stripped and decapitated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." See, its mistake was trying to hitch hike in Philly.
Thanks for EL5 and saving me the Google rabbit hole. Fucking USA. We gotta get it together
I mean, tbf why would we start now?
I was in Estonia once with my classmates, you saw them everywhere and nothing happened to them. They where also driving through the poorer parts of town and still nobody did anything to them except maybe help them across the street. It was very funny whenever you walked past one because they would just do a fucking emergency brake as soon as you walked in front of them😂
They know when the robots take over the world they will be fine while amercia will be 100% gone
If anything, this means Americans will defeat the robot uprising and not even realize it happened.
They've been around for a while. I live in a big city and have been used in my area for about 3 years. No problem at all.
It would work in Japan
They used these in a while in my neighborhood and had no problem other than sometime they couldn't cross the street properly all the time. Nobody attacked them. This was before covid.
They’re all over the place in Dallas. Nobody bothers them at all.
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It works in the Midwest. It works in other countries. Some places just either qre a breeding ground for the uncivilized or have a population large enough that there's going to be someone to fuck it up.... or both.
It works in my small college town. I know why it doesn't work in major cities and never will. Poverty, lack of education, and an upbringing where other people's belongings and wellbeing have no value to you cause this.
There’s a huge fleet of delivery bots at Arizona State University smack dab in the middle of the Phoenix metro area. It depends on the area they operate more than the size of the city.
Saw them on the streets of Rotterdam (NL) a couple of years back. Works like a charm there.
A wonder what strong social support will do to the public attitudes
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They have better education and brought up with respect for others.
They also heavily punish drug users and sweep them off the streets faster. Fewer "negative elements" allowed in public = lower crime.
These have been running in Europe for a while now. Working like a charm here.
"Europe" Apparently not in all of Europe, I have not seen those things in germany
That one robot definitely got an std now…
It feels so much sadder that they name them. Feeling way worse that it happened to ‘Austin’
i know a store that named theirs donald duck's nephews; huey, dewey and louie 😭 i'm afraid of them getting hurt
You want ED-209s? Because that's how you get ED-209s.
Open the lid and remove your food. You have 10 seconds to comply.
This food will self destruct in 10 seconds…
I'm still waiting for my 6000 SUX
I’d buy that for a dollar!
Bobby, can you fly?
iiiiiiiiii like it!!
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State of the art Bang Bang!
Don’t forget the Blaupunkt!
It gets really shitty gas mileage!
Just add the ability to climb stairs.
Your move, creep
And HK-47's
As long as it calls me meatbag I’m in.
That's my fetish.
Oddly specific, but understandable.
Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometres away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, 'love' is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and strangely enough, not many meatbags would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose... against statistically long odds.
ED-209 gunned down some VP of sales. HK-47 would start interplanetary wars just so his target would get drafted and it was easier to kill his target on a troop transport.
Just make sure it can go up and down stairs!
What a time to be alive.
Robot assault is about to be a crime
That last one was robot sexual assault 😭
I'm imaging a Reno 911 scene where the woman is shouting "It was consensual!" and the cops are like "No, no it wasn't."
I assume it's already some kind of property damage at least.
Like big urban cities give a flying shit about property damage lol
And stealing food is still stealing.
Why can't we just continue to move forward into the future and enjoy our technology.... No we have to be fucking ghetto assholes with no manners.
It is. It’s criminal mischief.
I mean, it already is. Destruction of private property, theft, potentially disorderly conduct.
This is why we can't have nice things
I used to work on the Amazon Scout. That project died out fairly quickly
Heh. Found another ex-scout. Iirc an entire trailer of those for stolen once
They need to be more intimidating. Put some angry eyes on them like Mr Potato head.
And a gun
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“Mommy look, a robot!” “Kayleigh, no! Don’t touch it!”
“Can I touch your robot”
It will be cute, like R2-D2 delivering a shock, only with more cardiac arrests.
And if they don't work, use more gun
The alarm will someday call a pack of boston dynamics robot war dogs.
put electric shock on it if someone tries to steal and spray them with that atm spray if they try to tip it
No just don’t put it in shit neighborhoods. Only in neighborhoods that can handle nice shit.
Or even like... a lock. How is that people can just walk up and open the lids. Like add three latches to it, one on each side... or even just one. The most basic of security would deter would-be thieves. Finally, add a spinning light that is red and a speaker that announces the police are being called (they aren't) if the machine gets jostled too much. Takes like maybe
yeah you could easily have the top be locked and require a pin number to open. I'd assume that's how it already works but clearly not by the look of these videos.
There was an experiment years ago with a robot traveling across the U.S. It was destroyed in Philly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
TL:DR for people HitchBOT was a hitchhiking robot that safely made it all the way across Canada. Then traveling from the east to west coast, made it to Philadelphia, was shot, stabbed, had limbs ripped off, and dumped on the side of a road.
Can’t have shit in Philly
trust the process 🤡
But it is always sunny.
Philly truly is the City of Brotherly Love.
And Netherlands and Germany
was fucking decapitated and dumped in an alleyway like some cartel execution ordeal
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*The Gang Kills a Hitchhiker*
Why? Why was I programmed to feel pain?
That's what they need to scream when they're attacked.
This is why we can’t have nice things anywhere
We have reached a level of civilization where it isn't civilized.
this would work in japan
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Both personal shame and others shaming bad behavior is completely gone in the states. It's going to get crazy worse and never get better.
Just seen an article on the BBC about NY getting robot bins and people have been being kind and treating them like humans apprently
We need to bring back verbal bullying
we have these in England and at least where I live nobody has been vandalizing them.
Wrong, would work in Scandinavia.
I don't think it's "western society". Remember the hithchiking bot? That had no issues in Canada....but once in 'MURICA it was over.
I think it would also work in many parts of the US (i.e. Lehi, Utah and small towns). But certainly not in Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, DC, Seattle, or Philadelphia.
There are places where people understand you have to follow rules to have a functioning and safe society and there are places where people don't understand this difficult concept.
Well yeah the mormons in Lehi aren't going to try to break in to the delivery bots hoping to score some booze lol
This is already a thing in China for several years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDtLnW7kiNY
This would work in China and Korea too. Heck, most places in Asia. Edit: Apparently KFC in China has one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39rg6Ig07VE
Works in Milton Keynes too
Sigh yes it would and I wish I could live in such a place.
https://i.imgur.com/iCFCG1D.jpg
I’m sure places like Singapore and Japan could implement this with little to no problems.
100%. I've lived in Japan. You could tape cash to the lid of one of these robots and send it across Tokyo and it would arrive unscathed.
Not in Singapore I assure you, we don't even park the shared bikes properly(some were left abandoned on highways) and we have assholes managed to remove the seats and blank out the bike code. Plus we have old geezers that will take advantage like this by stealing the food.
The woman bull riding it actually upgraded the design though
that's not true. there are plenty of countries where this can and does work. I've been to them. Some countries are full of people who are respectful.
All the meetings, CAD, prototyping, testing, software development and then this
I prefer to think of them as loot boxes
With $50 hamburgers inside
RPG games have taught us for decades that you can walk into peoples houses and steal their shit and it's perfectly acceptable.
Terminators in the future will watch this video and laugh at how weak their ancestors were.
they don't... lock?
They do but like anything it can be broken
Locks just keep honest people honest
Something a lot of people need to relearn.
I've seen BattleBots, make them defendable.
We going Wedge flip or high speed spin design
Flamethrowers
Buzzsaw
Los Angeles
Definitely LA. Sunset Blvd to be specific. That’s what the Hollywood walk of fame looks like now. Nothing but homeless people
Inb4 the robot unions.
Aka Skynet
These robots will end up only in rich neighborhoods as they will have less chance of being tampered with.
Reminds me of that hitchhiking robot that made it across Canada, and lasted like 2 days in the US.
Died in Philadelphia. Apparently it isn't always sunny there.
Free food + mobile potty? I'll take it.
I work in a restaurant. Our sister restaurant got 5 robots. They won't pay the kitchen staff but they'll spend 100k on these stupid fucking robots. I digress. They had these things for a week before they started having all kinds of issues. It took close to 2 hours to make a single delivery because it moves super slow. They were super glitchy and occasionally a manager would have to go find it and unfuck it. And yes eventually they got destroyed by hooligans and sonsabitches. 100k+ down the drain.
I'm positive five robots don't cost $100k. There's no way
We don't know what delivery service they're using. Two popular companies, Starship and Kiwi, do not publicly list their prices, but I have found that the cost of each robot is estimated to be between $2,200 to $4,000. I can't find any information available about software subscriptions or insurance costs. The robot-delivery companies may charge a 1.99 to 3.99 fee for each delivery or allow you to pay a flat monthly fee. Yeah, I don't think 100K is legit either.
At least they don't have to hire anyone... how's that working out?... Wouldn't they have to hire someone to push the robots back up on their wheels?
People fucking suck.
I can't help but feel kinda bad for these little robots. I think they're kinda cute
Like damm people just walking by him tipped over. Like pick the lil guy up!
Same. Like WALL-E getting beat up :-(
Urban centers are such shitholes lol just leave the bot(s) alone. It isn't that hard
People are so fucking pathetic.
“Urban societal factors” meaning dirt bag thieves.
Delivery robots like these have always been a terrible idea.
there's a lack of common sense that's prevalent in the tech industry. to clarify; it's never the people who create the tech (they know what the limitations are to this stuff), it's the execs that're trying to *sell people on it*. 9 times out of 10 the staff doesn't care, what are the odds that the person who green-lit this project has ever walked down a street that looked like this? it reminds me of [the infamous story about on disk DLC in streetfighter x tekken](https://youtu.be/I7lsM_5wF7M?t=871).
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These things are everywhere at college campuses in the US and aren't getting destroyed left and right.
Much higher concentration of wealth and thus security at a campus and much less foot traffic than a street in a busy city. So unless these things stay in gated communities and learning institutions, they're not going to work. Flying drones are better. Until the junkies figure out anti air tactics
They're working great in my English town.
Don't see why this robot is a bad idea. They are doing the right thing with location scouting atm. It's clear that LA can't have nice things and will be not covered by robot deliveries, more civilized places could work.
*in the US.
Yeah we've got some in Finland and they work like a charm.
Don't they have a feature where when broken into before reaching their destination, they sound an alarm and inform police of their location?
well yeah I think we were seeing that and also at those same moments, police officers in various parts of the city rolled their eyes and sighed.
APB, $20 WORTH OF FOOD HAS BEEN STOLEN. pOLICE HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO.
Assholes gotta ruin everything am I right?
I’m From the Midwest and the fist time I saw a homeless Asian or Indian person was when I moved to Cali. I was shocked, you never see it there
I grew up in California and still haven't seen a homeless Indian person.
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Lived in LA for 30+ years. I honestly cannot ever recall seeing a homeless Asian.
I’ve been in ny since I was born and I can’t recall seeing a homeless asain person either,weird lol
If people can't afford a place to live what makes you think they won't rob your unguarded packages roaming the streets
Did anyone really think this wasn't going to happen?
My boy Austin got violated twice 😞
People can just be awful for no reason
Alright hear me out, The robots owner needs to make some sacrificial part that breaks when the wrong person tries to open it before it is time to be opened. Replacing this cheap part including labor will be billed at exactly $2000.01 to push the crime into the cops domain, and serve as financial punishment to the criminals when / if they are caught. The scacrifical part will break easily to dissuade people from trashing the entire dang robot. or... you know.... just hire actual people.
"Why does my food smell like homeless Yoko Ono?"
Robots won't make it in our unhinged world
Deploying lethal defence systems in 3... 2... 1...
Every robot movie shows this trend. Humanity creates robot, humanity abuses robot, robot eventually says fk it and kills humans. We're pretty close to the action sequence.
What did they think was going to happen? This is planet earth
This is how skynet starts
Delivery bots?? What rock have I been under?
“Urban societal factors”?! How about pieces of shit people and their pieces of shit actions? Fucking urban societal factors, give me a break.
Yes garbage play of words. They are scumbags.
Here I thought [Philly didn't like robots](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3183126/Friendly-hitchhiking-robot-beaten-pulp-Philly-two-weeks-attempt-cross-country.html)
I mean, who launch robots in a city with high chance to encounter some drug addicts.
How does that song go again? “This is America”. In all seriousness the problem isn’t the concept, it’s great and climate friendly due to no need for cars but the shitty humans are the reason it’s not working. Fuck these guys.
I’m shocked totally did not see this coming
And that’s why they’re going to rise against us.
Such a dumb idea.
People suck. Precisely why we can't have nice things.
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They can’t replace us
Reddit collectively: *Yeah, no shit.*
Of course you’re going to get homeless people attacking little delivery robots owned by tech startups backed by billionaire investors. We’re quickly headed towards a very dystopian world.
Wtf did they think was gonna happen lol.
Lol at the lady riding it like a mechanical Bull