Robot Gets Loose at New York Fashion Week, Runs Into People

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Robot Gets Loose at New York Fashion Week, Runs Into People

Robots dominated New York Fashion Week, but not all of them behaved themselves.

https://heatst.com/entertainment/robots-take-over-new-york-fashion-week-with-mixed-success/



By Tom Teodorczuk | 4:08 pm, September 13, 2016

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Michael Kors used the Double robot camera for its installation at Refinery29’s 29 Rooms event held to coincide with NYFW in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. The luxury designer re-created a digital street at 29 Rooms complete with shops and flowers and the robot camera—controlled by an individual user’s iPad— was at the center of the action. The robot camera was designed to follow people entering the Michael Kors installation.

But the Double robot was disabled after it kept bumping into people and signs, a Michael Kors source told Heat Street.

“As well as hitting things, Double got knocked over quite a few times so we had to stop the robot from moving. By Saturday it was stationary and just being used to take pictures,” the source said.

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[FrodosPet]

1. How many robots are enough?

How many are too many?

We REALLY need to start considering this stuff, instead of just kicking the can down the road and calling people "Luddites" because they recognize how powerful and NEGATIVELY disruptive this technology can be.