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RESEARCHERS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED THAT ONLY ONE NEW YORKER ATTACKED THEIR CUTE TRASH-COLLECTING ROBOTS

Futurism – The Byte

By NOOR AL-SIBAI

March 26, 2023

New Yorkers aren’t exactly known for being warm and fuzzy, so researchers were pleasantly surprised when only a few were rude to some trash-collecting robots deployed in Greenwich Village.

The Cornell researchers behind the experiment — which featured robotic trash cans that zoomed about Astor Place — found that only some of the people they observed reacted violently or rudely.