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Pharm-Bot Goes On Rampage
budgenator writes "Seems that Waldo, a robot that delivers medication from the pharmacy to the nurses stations, went on an extracurricular journey at San Francisco's UCSF Medical Center last Tuesday. Waldo entered uninvited into a radiation oncology examination room disturbing a Doctor and Patient enough that it caused them to flee the room. Is navigating a hospital full of moving humans more difficult than navigating the DARPA grand challenge, or could it be that like his sibling robort Elvis, he just wanted to leave the building?"
It's from The Register. They report real stories with a humorous slant - so basically, the robot took a couple of wrong turns.
The Reg's main reporting is on IT news, and for the most part that's pretty decent reporting. Stuff like this they just throw in for comic relief. They have a whole running theme of highly sensationalistic stories about how The Machines are going to try and wipe us out, regularly reporting on things like toasters electrocuting people, or people getting locked inside of high tech public toilets.
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.