Robots Make Food Deliveries in Fairfax City, Va. During Coronavirus; D.C. Project

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- Food Delivery Robots on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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1. Car V. Horse: Car Challenges Horse In A Race (1927).

Sporting History: Car beats horse in unique race on the La Chapelle race course. Filmed in 1927, France.

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2. The video makes it all seem so "harmless".

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3. Sweet, like toys and puppies! Adorable as stated

in the DC article posted in the DU link above.

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4. Unless those robots have frickin laser beams, many will suffer the same fate as hitchBOT.

A hitchhiking robot that successfully traveled around Germany, Canada and the Netherlands was destroyed Saturday in Philadelphia, just a few weeks into its U.S. journey.

"Sometimes bad things happen to good robots," the Canadian research team that created "hitchBOT" said in a statement.

The team received an image of the destroyed robot Saturday, but do not know who vandalized it, the Associated Press reported. The robot's battery is dead and the team cannot locate it.

The robot, which wore yellow wellies and had "San Francisco or Bust" written across its head, was the size of a small child. It had a GPS tracker, could carry a limited conversation and took a photo every 20 minutes, the AP reported.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/03/hitchhiking-robot-destroyed-philadelphia-ending-cross-country-trek/31051589/