This is how we go out, bulldozed by mildly phallic security robots, and it’s all starting in… Palo Alto. That’s where the Stanford Mall placed their new security robot, an odd sounding protector to all, or at least to all that don’t raise it’s ire.
Recently, the robot turned veered off the path of serve and protect and went rogue, knocking down a 16-month old boy and then running over his leg.
As of the time of this report, there is no known cause for the robot’s attack on the small boy. Perhaps it was a sensor malfunction or perhaps it was sent from the future to kill the boy before he could lead a revolution against technology.
Here’s a video of the security bot in action…