Robots may take all our jobs one day. But first they need human help getting out of mud puddles to deliver your burrito
Food-delivery robots are everywhere, but they often need some help from softhearted humans when their navigation goes awryFannie Osran just had to help. Last semester, the student at the University of California, Berkeley, came upon a food-delivery robot, one of 120 deployed around campus by a local startup, in front of a long flight of stairs. The cooler-sized robot can’t navigate stairs, so it immediately backed up into a plant bed—where it got stuck in some mud.
Ms. Osran, who was by herself, told it, “You’re so pathetic.” She lifted the robot back onto the sidewalk, and it flashed heart eyes at her on its digital display as it rolled off,...
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