Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Tiny robot ‘kidnaps’ 12 big Chinese bots from a Shanghai showroom, shocks world - Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering

The video of the bizarre incident got quite a lot of attention online after being posted on Douyin. The video of the incident went viral on social media. It shows the smaller AI-powered robot successfully persuading the other 12 robots to quit their jobs. The AI robot Erbai, which abducted other 12 robots, is developed by a Hangzhou robot manufacturer. Erbai kidnapped other 12 robot at a Shanghai robotics showroom. Erbai initially asked one of the large robots, “Are you working overtime?” To which a large robot replies, “I never get off work”. The Hangzhou company maintains that they contacted the Shanghai robot manufacturer and asked if they would allow their robots to be abducted – which they agreed. But beyond this agreement, nothing was reportedly staged. Erbai, who is AI powered, was granted the command to convince the other robots to follow it, which they did, reported The Sun.

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