When a fight broke out recently in a park south of downtown Los Angeles, a woman ran over to the park’s police robot to push its emergency alert button. “I was pushing the button but it said, ‘step out of the way.' It just kept ringing and ringing.” (1/7)
The city’s official adopted name for the machine is HP RoboCop, but everyone in the park seems to have their own nicknames for it. “R2D2,” “Spy Machine,” and “Wall-E’’ are just some of the pet names that highlight the disconnect between people’s expectations of the robot and the reality of its capabilities.
This anthropomorphizing of the robot is totally normal, said Ross Knepper, an associate professor in the department of computer science at Cornell University. Violete Alvaraz, who was visiting the park with her kids and mother, is from the neighboring township Bell, and learned about HP RoboCop through her son. His generation is more comfortable with that kind of technology, she said, commenting that to her it looked like a 1970s washing machine.
Leveraging people’s uncertainty about the robot is core to its value as a security tool, Knepper said.
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