Lindsay Ouellette
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Why do people kick Uber Eats robots?
Within the first three weeks of the delivery robots’ arrival in Philly, videos emerged of people sitting on them, graffitiing them and eventually kicking one over.
And it’s not just Philly:
A quick web search produces a long list of examples of people being filmed or filming themselves attacking robots.
Buy why?
In Ouellette’s dissertation, “From Fiction to Friction: Abusing Autonomous Mobile Robots,” she created conditions to try and find out what motivated… See more →