Unless something has life, it can never die or even decide to take that life away. Surprisingly enough, there are a number of robots that have killed themselves in the past. As it seems, life is not only hard on human beings.
The fear before now by people such as Stephen Hawking is that Artificial Intelligence may turn out to destroy humans. Before then, they have started it with themselves. Although it has not happened for many times, it is still significant the way it has all happened.
The only explanation that will have robots killing themselves is when they are hacked. But with these, there was no evidence of hacking; they just decided to end their lives themselves.
Here are robots that have killed themselves
Irobot Roomba 760
What was recorded as the first robot suicide happened in 2013 when a robot decided to end its own life in a way no one would ever guess. This involved a robot, the Irobot Roomba 760 which job was to keep the place clean.
Probably tired to cleaning dirt, the robot which was placed on the work surface to clean off some cereal decided once the homeowner left the house to turn on the kitchen hotplate and burn itself to the death. So yes, the robot decided to end its own life by burning itself to ashes after it was done with the job it was assigned.
What makes the Irobot Roomba 760 robot interesting even more interesting is that according to the owner of the house, he turned off the robot before leaving home with his wife and son. Somehow, the device got to switch itself back on before setting itself ablaze, probably in protest against the type of work it is doing.
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According to the owner of the house, the Irobot Roomba 760 which has never had a history of destroying itself, dragged itself to the hotplate before it turned on the cooker and then put itself up there where it got to slowly burn away. By the time the family would return home and call the fire service, it had already turned to ashes.
As far as Gernot Hackl, whose home it was that the Robot decided to commit suicide killed itself decided that he was going to sue for the damages caused by the robot which left him and his family homeless after their home was said to be inhabitable as a result of the damages caused by the incident.
While nothing more has been heard about it, there has been no case again of any other Irobot Roomba 760 vacuum cleaner killing itself.
Knightscope K5
Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself.
We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots. pic.twitter.com/rGLTAWZMjn
— Bilal (@bilalfarooqui) July 17, 2017
The first time that a robot would kill itself was using fire to burn itself. The next time it would be an irony as instead of burning itself, the Knightscope K5 decided to just drown itself out of this helluva life, and that was exactly what it did.
The robot was designed to serve as a security robot at the D.C. office building. According to a tweet from the office, they were promised flying cars only to end up with a suicidal robot.
At least, it is not known whether the 4-foot-tall RoboCop only wanted to take a swim before it drowned, but the unanimous belief is that the robot with a speed of 18 miles per hour and a weight of 300lbs has decided to end its own life by jumping into the water.
The idea that it was a suicide was because it had sensors that were supposed to help it move around without any problem or help.
In case you are wondering what job the robot was designed to handle, it is not cleaning the toilet. It is designed to prevent crime by detecting security threats and raise alarm to get the supposed criminal off as well as get the attention of security. Another thing it does was to scan car plate numbers and run them against the police data base.
According to the makers of the robot, Knightscope, while that is an isolated case, they would definitely deliver a new robot for free in place of that one.
For now, these are the only robots that have killed themselves.
