Roboticide or publicity stunt? You decide.
On the eve of CES 2019—an event at which a laundry-folding robot has already made headlines and news of more human-like machines are surely to come—Russian robotics company Promobot says one of its autonomous robots was the victim of a hit-and-run.
In a video posted to YouTube on Jan. 7, Promobot says a self-driving Tesla Model S “hit and destroyed” one of its V.4 robots at 3000 Paradise Road. That’s just outside the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino—and about half a mile from the Las Vegas Convention Center, where CES takes place.
The black-and-white video shows a happy Promobot on the side of the road outside the resort when a white car suddenly turns the corner, knocks it down and drives off.
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