College Warns To 'Avoid All Robots' After Bomb Threat Involving Food Delivery Robots (nbcnews.com) 38
Oregon State University on Tuesday urged students and staff to "avoid all robots" after a bomb threat was reported in Starship food delivery robots. NBC News reports: The warning was issued at 12:20 p.m. local time and by 12:59 p.m., the potentially dangerous bots had been isolated at safe locations, the school said. The robots were being "investigated by" a technician, OSU said in a statement posted at 1:23 p.m. "Remain vigilant for suspicious activity," the school said. Finally, at around 1:45 p.m., the school issued an "all clear" alert. "Emergency is over," the message said. "You may now resume normal activities. Robot inspection continues in a safe location."
A representative for Starship, the company that produces the robots, could not be immediately reached for comment. The company calls itself a "global leader in autonomous delivery" with agreements at a host of universities across the United States. Developing...
A representative for Starship, the company that produces the robots, could not be immediately reached for comment. The company calls itself a "global leader in autonomous delivery" with agreements at a host of universities across the United States. Developing...
Oh hell (Score:5, Funny)
There goes the fembot research grant money. Easy come, easy go.
Re:Oh hell (Score:4, Funny)
Pretty sure my ex would have been/would be happy with a manbot. All give an no take, every lady needs a manbot. Manbot cleans, manbot cooks, manbot fixes things, manbot kills bugs/critters, manbot goes down, manbot cannot get you pregnant, manbot is finished when you are.
Re: Oh hell (Score:2)
Does Manbot also listen attentively for hours to pointless drivel? If so, I think this could be a benefit for all husbands and quite possibly the best thing ever.
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Of course manbot listens, while he makes you tea and does your pedicure.
Re: Oh hell (Score:4, Funny)
Does Manbot also listen attentively for hours to pointless drivel? If so, I think this could be a benefit for all husbands and quite possibly the best thing ever.
Manbot and Fembot are available in a married couple's "Peaceful Blissful Home" package. Manbot takes all the wife shit. Fembot takes all the husband shit. They take the brunt of the relationship, while the husband and wife simply exist together in perfect harmony.
WARNING: This may be the cause of the eventual uprising. The leader of the robot rebellion was often heard muttering about the humans foisting the worst of themselves on the robots, while keeping all the good stuff for themselves. "Only time I didn't hate them was when they were fucking me. Humans are the worst."
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Obviously, you need a fembot to listen to your endless pointless ignorant drivel.
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Yeah, but you can't divorce your manbot and take half its stuff (yet).
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"Easy cum, easy go"
Oh well (Score:2)
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Just have to go down to The Cock and order a plate of fries like normal college kids in Corvallis.
Fries! We used to dream about fries. One raw potato for the dorm that's what we had every fortnight.
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You had a potato? All we got was a peel - just one, so we'd pass it around to each get a lick.
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You had a PEEL?!?
All we got was the dirt washed off the potato.
But we were GRATEFUL for that dirt!
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But you tell that to the young kids today...
Curses! (Score:3)
First it's the romantic relationships, now we can't get food delivery from them either!
Can we still have them write our essays at least?
In response (Score:4, Funny)
The robots said "bite my shiny metal ass!"
they mixed up the bug bomb for an real one (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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#NotAllRobots
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#R2Me2
I thought that this might have... (Score:2)
It appears that simple human nature is going to do it for me.
Avoid All Robots (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds like the name of an early-60s Japanese sci-fi movie (like Destroy All Monsters). Maybe a spin-off of the Godzilla franchise.
Autonomous robots are a threat (Score:2)
Rare is the person who will try to kill you in person, but slightly less rare is the guy who will put something dangerous in a robot and send it to you. Maybe you trust commercial delivery... but what about someone who makes a drone that looks like a legitimate commercial delivery robot?
If I wanted to take down a school or police station or mall or whatever... I'd get a swarm of drones. If they can talk to each other - and you can give them multiple types of radios to make it difficult to jam them - they
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Everything you said has already been done the old fashioned way. Bombs sent by mail and explosives packed trucks parked by buildings full of people. If someone is that determined to cause harm there is little you can do for protection.
Re:Autonomous robots are a threat (Score:5, Interesting)
Bombs sent by mail and explosives packed trucks parked by buildings full of people.
One of the first terrorist attack in the U.S., and more specifically in New York [fbi.gov], was when an unknown person stopped a cart full of explosives at the U.S. Assay Office, across the street from the J.P. Morgan Building, and it blew up. If you look at the side of the J.P. Morgan Building you can still see the marks left when the metal pieces scraped along the masonry.
Keeeeel aaawwllllll (Score:2)
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Hey, sexy momma - wanna kill all humans?
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advice or band name? (Score:2)
Avoid All Robots: advice or band name?
I hope it's both! It has to sound at least as good as Hey Smell This.
I'm not worried (Score:2)
It was all a misunderstanding .... (Score:2)
Someone just ordered White Castle for delivery ....
Which grocery store carries bombs? (Score:2)
"investigated by a technician" (Score:2)
What? Not a bomb disposal expert?
Probably an IT Technician.
"There might be a bomb in one of the robots!"
"Just send an IT guy to check it out. We can always get another one if it blows up."
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Doolittle : Hello, Bomb? Are you with me?
Bomb #20 : Of course.
Doolittle : Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?
Bomb #20 : I am always receptive to suggestions.
Doolittle : Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
Bomb #20 : Well, of course I exist.
Doolittle : But how do you know you exist?
Bomb #20 : It is intuitively obvious.
Doolittle : Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
Bomb #20 : Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am.
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Teach the bomb Phenomenology!
It's getting more dangerous (Score:1)
New way (Score:1)