Potemkin_Jedi
Potemkin_Jedi t1_iy6jpjd wrote
Reply to comment by sadetheruiner in Robots will roam a university to study “a socio-technical problem” — will wander a Texas campus so researchers can study human-robot relations. by marketrent
It’s not necessarily the same thing, but the university where I work has been using autonomous food-delivery robots on-campus for a few years and everyone has treated them with respect as they navigate around. Now the app-powered scooters that were littered all over campus…those have ended up in various bodies of water and some sturdy trees.
Potemkin_Jedi t1_iy6n09j wrote
Reply to comment by sadetheruiner in Robots will roam a university to study “a socio-technical problem” — will wander a Texas campus so researchers can study human-robot relations. by marketrent
It’s interesting because the delivery robots are roughly dog-sized (knee-high and longer than they are tall or wide); I find myself treating them with the deference of service animals, so maybe their appearance has something to do with how they are treated.