Robot vacuum cleaner encountered the worst nightmare: spring door stop

2021-11-13 07:16:38 By : Ms. Rose Z

If you are worried about the dystopian future of robots taking over the planet, maybe this will calm your nerves.

Twitter user Nathan Lawrence (Nathan Lawrence), who calls himself "a connoisseur of the strange robot vacuum cleaner problem," recently shared a lively example on the platform in a tweet that has gone viral.

As you can see, his robot vacuum cleaner turned off after turning into a spring-loaded door plug, which was pressed against the device's imperfect on/off switch.

BOING. (Don't tell me that you didn't hear the sound of the spring door plug when you saw that picture.)

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Lawrence told Mashable that the model of this particular vacuum cleaner was Shark RV100AE. He said that this problem occurs almost every morning.

A quick Google search has at least one other instance, shared by a user on Reddit, that has exactly the same problem as the shark vacuum cleaner.

“I used to buy a bunch of vacuum cleaners from eBay or Craigslist and repair them, so over time, I experienced a series of different types of [strange robot vacuum problems],” Lawrence told Mashable. However, this is his favorite.

On Twitter, he pointed out that “there is a metaphor for'unit testing and production environment'. When testing the Shark RV100AE for any possible defects, the manufacturer of the robot vacuum cleaner did not seem to encounter any spring door plugs.

Now there are some real dystopian examples of artificial intelligence and robots.

However, since most robots are more like Shark RV100AE than Boston Dynamics, we don't think you need to worry about Skynet yet.