14 July 2016 (11:14 UTC-07 Tango 01) 24 Tir 1395/08 Shawwal 1437/11 Yi-Wei 4714

“What is that thing? What is that thing!”-mother of victim screaming as she tried to pull her child from under the 300 pound K5 security-bot

For the second time in one week, and at the same California shopping mall (Stanford Shopping Center), a 136kg (3-hundred pound) security guard job stealing security robot has injured a human.

Knightscope, the maker of the K5 Autonomous Data Machine (Machine Identification Number 13), claimed in the latest incident the child was running backwards, which somehow confused the bot, and got run over.  The angry parents call bullshit on that claim as their 16 months old is too young to know how to run backwards!  They say the security-bot drove straight for their child, without deviation, knocking him face-down.  Their child survived the accident with a long scratch on the back of his leg.

Unnamed mall employees said this was the second time there was an “incident” with the K5, mall management refused to confirm, or deny, the employee’s claim.  Knightscope claims the latest reported incident is the first and only incident.

Interestingly a Catholic news source published a report, last month, which stated that “Robots evolving to defend themselves as people prove dangerous” and concluded that “It’s important that humans respect robots…” !  The report documents how around the world robots are being attacked by humans.  It also promoted the use of the K5 Autonomous Data Machine.

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