sorta https://nypost.com/2018/05/03/laguardia-airports-security-robot-is-giving-women-the-creeps/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
That's the difference between Silicon Valley and the east coast. The very same robots that "give women the creeps" in New York have no trouble at all finding girlfriends in Palo Alto where the autonomous machines (literally) rolled out a couple of years ago. (We have a different kind of girl out here.) Here's a post I made on another discussion board a couple of years ago after encountering one for the first time: I was visiting Stanford University today., to shop in their bookstore for academic philosophy books, walking through the exceedingly upscale Stanford Shopping Center next door to the campus and wasn't paying much attention, and I almost walked into a robot! It was a cone-shaped thing, about 5 feet high, with a rounded point on top and with wheels on the bottom. (It reminded me of a Dalek.) It stopped when I entered its path and it was definitely aware of me. I expected it to scream "Exterminate! Exterminate!" and try to disintegrate me with a ray, but it remained silent. This is why I love Silicon Valley! Apparently the robots are employed at the shipping center (one of the most upscale in the US) and at various Silicon Valley tech industry corporate campuses as security guards. They have the autonomous ability to size-up situations ("data analytics") and if they judge something is amiss, they automatically alert the human cops. They can also broadcast messages in emergencies, make recordings of events they encounter and stuff like that. They are unarmed. http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/08/09/robots-deployed-to-protect-and-serve
