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Bigjoemonger t1_irk5vak wrote

These would be great for locations where you know people aren't going to screw with it. Such as in large businesses or government facilities. They could be used to deliver food or documents or mail or tools.

Consider say you have to send your device to IT for repair. In a huge company campus it could be 40 min round trip just to drop off your laptop. You create a ticket, IT dispatches the bot with your new laptop, which shows up at your office. You take out the new laptop, put in the old laptop and it drives off back to IT.

It was never going to work out in public. Too many people who can screw with it, or other ways it can go wrong.

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h0tpotamus t1_irk76fs wrote

Like Amazon is above arming it with tazers to take on would be vandals.

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Delioth t1_irkiiq6 wrote

Good thing booby traps (and more broadly "doing stuff with the express purpose of causing harm") are illegal

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h0tpotamus t1_irktozb wrote

We can just deputize them as police drones. Loophole!

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