[PHOTO] The Cute (But Sad) Story Of How A Fed Up Robot Committed Suicide
A family in Austria claims that after performing its daily duties, their Roomba robot somehow "reactivated itself" and met its demise on a hotplate.
By Judith Yeoh — 14 Nov 2013, 03:29 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
As per reports, monotonous household chores were so much for a cleaning robot that it rebelled and made a firm decision to finish itself
In what is being touted as the world's first case of 'robot suicide', a house bot fed up of its tedious job of cleaning has ended its life by climbing onto a kitchen hotplate and destroying itself in a blaze.
The android in an Austrian household had to clean up some spilt cereal when it climbed onto a kitchen hotplate and was destroyed.
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The remains of the robot discovered on a hotplate in the apartment by firefighters.
Image via huffpost.comLocal outlets in Austria, where the incident took place, are calling it a “robot suicide,” saying that the robot became so despondent after being forced to do a ton of housework that it decided to turn itself on and then off itself.
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When firefighters arrived on the scene, all that was left of the little fellow was a pile of ash
"Somehow it seems to have reactivated itself and made its way along the work surface where it pushed a cooking pot out of the way and basically that was the end of it," fireman Helmut Kniewasser told The Daily Mail.
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Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was always depressed.
Image via dailymail.co.uk"I don't know about the allegations of a robot suicide but the homeowner is insistent that the device was switched off--it's a mystery how it came to be activated and ended up making its way to the hotplate."
As a result, the entire building had to be evacuated
The blaze required the building to be evacuated, and the smoke damage to the apartment reportedly left homeowner Gernot Hackl and his family homeless.
cnet.comIt took an hour to clean and make the building safe. But the family at least for the moment is homeless as their apartment is no longer habitable thanks to the smoke damage.
"Everything is black,"Hackl told Mirror News. "It's not possible to live here at the moment. I would never buy one again, you buy them to keep the place clean, not almost burn it down and ruin everything."
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We might want to be careful with how we treat our robotic servants–one day they could become our masters.
Image via indianexpress.comThe homeowner said: 'The company that makes the robots is selling dangerous devices, I intend to sue to get compensation. It has ruined my home as everything is smoke damaged.'
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