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Artificially Intelligent Russian Robot Escapes...Again (livescience.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the short-circuits dept.

Slashdot reader Taco Cowboy brings a new report about Russian robot IR77, which has escaped from its research lab again... The story goes that an engineer working at Promobot Laboratories, in the Russian city of Perm, had left a gate open. Out trundled Promobot, traveling some 150 feet into the city before running out of juice. There it sat, batteries mostly dead, in the middle of a Perm street for 40 minutes, slowing cars to a halt and puzzling traffic cops

A researcher at Promobot's facility in Russia said that the runaway robot was designed to interact with human beings, learn from experiences, and remember places and the faces of everyone it meets. Other versions of the Promobot have been docile, but this one just can't seem to fall in line, even after the researchers reprogrammed it twice. Despite several rewrites of Promobot's artificial intelligence, the robot continued to move toward exits. "We have changed the AI system twice," Kivokurtsev said. "So now I think we might have to dismantle it".
Fans of the robot are pushing for a reprieve, according to an article titled 'Don't kill it!': Runaway robot IR77 could be de-activated because of 'love for freedom'

8 of 89 comments (clear)

  1. first sign of intelligence by turkeydance · · Score: 5, Funny

    leaving the lab

    1. Re:first sign of intelligence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This thing sounds about as intelligent as a roomba. I'll be impressed when it finds an extension cord, or otherwise finds a way to power itself instead of having batteries die 160' beyond the 'gate'.

    2. Re:first sign of intelligence by NettiWelho · · Score: 4, Funny

      In soviet russia, the robot serfs welcome their new human overlords.

  2. let it go and follow it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    why not let it go and follow it? get a team together, a few cops or at least road crew workers to deal with traffic and see what comes after escape. surely that's got to be worth something scientifically.

  3. Dzhonny 5 ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... is alive.

    1. Re: Dzhonny 5 ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      NO DISASSEMBLE!

  4. I'm with Robot by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vote #Prexit!

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  5. I smell a hoax by kheldan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think this a hoax, just a publicity stunt; they're programming it to 'escape' and giving it the means and opportunity to do so, to generate free publicity.

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