Security robot falls into pond after failing to spot stairs or water A security robot tasked with patrolling an office building in Washington DC has instead driven itself into a water feature. The bot appears to have been a Knightscope K5, a surveillance bot designed to roll around “parking lots, corporate campuses and hospitals” so it can use its video cameras, anomaly detection, live video …
The catch is that Gandhi only "won" because another minor incident - WW2 - had destroyed Britain's abilities to hold on to its empire. And his "victory" resulted in Partition, a dreadful civil war still rumbling on in Kashmir, a second civil war in Bangladesh, and two nuclear armed states in a faceoff.
Gandhi is not somebody I would willingly cite when it comes to the benefits of pacifism, or indeed on any political subject.
watching them take 30 seconds or more to "recalculate" when a bunch of kids run by them, was disappointing.
It also failed to react to a Sonic Screwdriver toy, nor to standing behind it playing "EXTERMINATE!" from a sound effect file on my phone. I even offered it a jelly baby.
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