{"id":765,"date":"2017-07-17T23:39:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T06:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorennason-dot-com.crwcun8-liquidwebsites.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2017-07-17T23:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T06:39:35","slug":"the-robots-are-giving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorennason.com\/2017\/07\/the-robots-are-giving-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Robots are Giving Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Knightscope K5 security robot\u00a0was supposed to patrol the Georgetown Waterfront, a ritzy shopping-and-office complex along the Washington Harbour in D.C. Looking like a mutant hybrid of R2D2 and a Dalek, the K5 was built to be a crime-fighting robot that could rove the streets and monitor for suspicious activity. It has been used in some offices and malls across America.<\/p>\n<p>Today the robot could not go on anymore and\u00a0ended it&#8217;s life in a mall water fountain. It couldn&#8217;t handle the pressure of it&#8217;s job and today it ended it all.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself.<\/p>\n<p>We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rGLTAWZMjn\">pic.twitter.com\/rGLTAWZMjn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bilal Farooqui (@bilalfarooqui) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bilalfarooqui\/status\/887025375754166272\">July 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Knightscope K5 security robot\u00a0was supposed to patrol the Georgetown Waterfront, a ritzy shopping-and-office complex along the Washington Harbour in D.C. 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