Learned experts in the field of science and technology have had predicted how ‘Artificial Intelligence’ may take over the world.
On close heels, a Russian robot appears to have ‘escaped’ the research lab in which it was housed.
Do you know what’s more weird? It is the second time the bot has tried to flee the lab in just a span of two weeks, according to news reports.
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Engineers at the Russian lab reprogrammed the intelligent machine, dubbed Promobot IR77, after last week’s incident, but the robot recently made a second escape attempt, The Mirror reported.
Reportedly, in its first effort to flee last week, the robot almost made 50 meters into the street before it got ‘partially paralyzed’ due to power exhaustion.
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Promobot, the company that designed the robot, announced the escapade in a blog post the next day. However, some believe that the whole event was a promotional stunt.
The company said its engineers were testing a new positioning system that allows the robot to avoid collisions while moving under its own control. But when a gate was left open, the robot wandered into the street and blocked a lane of traffic for about 40 minutes, the blog post stated.
The Promobot was designed to interact with people using speech recognition. According to the company’s website, the bot is very intelligent so much so that it “will not be confused or stray”.
