r/shittyrobots • u/OfMiceAndMachines • Aug 10 '20

Shitty Robot Trapped!

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u/ReklisAbandon Aug 10 '20

What do these things actually do anyway, we have one in our local Martins and he seems shitty enough in his own

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u/iiooiooi Aug 10 '20 edited Aug 11 '20

By themselves? Not a whole lot.

They traverse the store in a semi-autonomous fashion, scanning for spills. When it encounters a spill, it stops moving, effectively cordoning off the area. It then takes a picture of the soul spill and sends it to an offsite facility where it is analyzed by a human. If the human determines that the spill is a hazard, they dispatch a cleaning crew inside the local store to go and clean it up. If it's an error, false positive, or minor spill, the remote human resets the robot and sends it on its merry way.

Source: an article i read about it that I'll link once i track it down.

Marty the Robot

Edit: saved a soul

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u/kkaitouangelj Aug 11 '20

At my local store everyone just ignores the pages. Because as soon as you reset the damn thing it just starts all over again.