Every robot should have some kind of electronic blinker to let others know they’re robots. That way, we can avoid a bunch of bumps and crashes.
Nice try, skynet…
We could always consider reaching out to Harrison Ford for a classic bot chase.
As it turns out, the impact wasn’t too severe. The Waymo cab, to its credit, hit the brakes immediately and avoided knocking the poor little thing over. And moments later, while the robotaxi is still in a daze, the Serve robot drives away like nothing happened.
Smash seems to be overselling it.
It appears the video may have been sped up in the part just before the impact. I would like to see the unedited clip, I bet it was way less severe than it looked.
Sounds like a good time to use the word “bump”
Maybe even “boop”.
There should be an open communication standard that all robots use to communicate with each other.
And it will only be used for good and nothing nefarious.
How about if we had sixteen different proprietary such protocols instead?
We’d need a seventeenth unifying protocol
Obviously.
Aside from the obvious I, Robot movie allusion, this idea doesn’t really work in the real world because robots have to be able to detect the presence and anticipate the actions of non-robots anyway. Unless you’re willing to ban all the actual people from the street, which is unreasonable, robot-to-robot communication doesn’t actually help you.
Robots can look different to people, if they know where each other are then they csn prioritise a collision with a robot over a human etc.
Begun, the robot wars have.
You call that a smash? Stop sensationalising, come now.
A car gently tapped a thing during a turn and came to a stop.
Where were you during the robot wars of 2025?
I see nobody talking about this, but aren’t the Waymo(s) trained on data which most likely did not include these robots yet?
It seems like this is just something that’ll probably happen a lot whenever something new is introduced on the roads.
Expect reCaptcha to ask you to identify food delivery robots soon.
Wouldn’t be surprised tbh.
Well, they should try to avoid any object in the road to be honest. Imagine a new toy comes out that a child is on. Sorry we killed that child l, we didn’t train it on that new toy.
Its just an unacceptable answer to be honest.
That is also very true.
It’s not a Tesla so I’m sure they are investigating the cause.
but aren’t the Waymo(s) trained on data which most likely did not include these robots yet?
You can say that about nearly 100% of humans as well.
We can discuss now who had the right of way.
But can we?
Do robots suddenly have rights?
