P sure this is how Maximum Overdrive started

grocery stores, famous for being spacious in aisle width and having floors free of spills/fallen objects/foodstuffs/children, are a great place to let an apparently oblivious r2-d2 loose

just noticed it's about the same height as the leading end of a shopping cart, without anything to draw extra attention to it, so i have to imagine this thing is getting rammed at corners on the regular

what if we put all the groceries on erratically moving shelves

not enough moving obstacles in the grocery store apparently

I hate all robots except the enslaved ones in factories that are chained to the floor. I’ve never seen this one irl but I think I hate it the most. Fucker’s going to get hip-checked into a frozen-food bin if it gets in my way.

When the Butlerian Jihad finally starts it won’t be bc of AI it will bc somebody finally lost it over some dumb annoying little piece of tech

i admit when i first encountered this thing i thought immediately about philadelphia beating the traveling robot to pieces

That was also my instinct. Just push it over and roll it into a ditch. Take the bananas though.

I love bananas but I would gladly beat the Delmonte Robot to death with hammers

it reminds me of this Chinese restaurant I went to that had robot "waiters," except the waiter robots were so useless and bad at pathing they had to be constantly supervised by the actual human wait staff

I'm so tired of gimmick robots. give me actually useful automation or gtfo

This seems completely unnecessary

i really don’t understand why it exists, other than tech guys had to do a growth

I walk with a stick and can't quickly change direction due to balance issues. This thing looks terrifying.

it’s an accessibility nightmare, truly

wtf is a banana robot? JFC

Not trying to influence anyone to do anything rash but somebody should definitely Philadelphia that robot.

its path is always unpredictable and it’s never not in the way. none of this is helping anyone do anything

it looks like it's being piloted by a toddler

When the only thing you understand is the attention economy, this is what you get.

Full agreement and also—it’s not even cute. It is baffling to me they didn’t bother to make it shaped like a charming monkey. (In all seriousness tho we all know this POS is recording everything around it.)

there’s no way it’s not! the banana snitch