These robot trash cans are … kinda cute? 🤖🗑️
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00:00Come here, buddy.
00:03Good job.
00:05These two robotic trash cans rolled around a plaza
00:07in New York City to test how people
00:09would interact with them.
00:10Some people came to the rescue of the robots
00:12when they got stuck or helped them move around more easily.
00:15There you go.
00:16But others weren't so nice.
00:20That's creepy.
00:23That's just freaking creepy.
00:24Two separate robots rolled around on hoverboards,
00:27with one collecting landfill garbage
00:29and the other recyclables.
00:30This is trash here.
00:32Yeah.
00:33Yeah.
00:34Oh, good boy.
00:35Oh, there you go.
00:36Oh, good boy.
00:38All that's recycling.
00:39Oh, you're a bad boy.
00:41You don't know what you're doing.
00:42It's OK.
00:43They're learning.
00:44They're learning.
00:45Researchers at Cornell University,
00:46who are studying how people interact
00:48with autonomous everyday objects in public,
00:50found that the robots encourage social interaction
00:53among strangers.