In something that could be a harbinger of the future, or a bizarre science fiction story, another Tesla in self-driving mode has been in an accident. This time, however, it struck a humanoid robot.
Promobot, which rents out the robots for $2,000 a day, said the incident occurred Sunday evening in Las Vegas as engineers were transporting several of their robots to a display booth in a convention center. During the transport, one of the robots (a rogue, perhaps?) stepped out of line and into the road. It was then struck by a Tesla Model S operating in autonomous mode.
The robot was destroyed.
“Of course we are vexed,” said Oleg Kivokurtsev, Promobot’s development director. “We brought this robot here from Philadelphia to participate at CES. Now it neither cannot participate in the event or be recovered.
“We will conduct an internal investigation and find out why the robot went to the roadway.”
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