Security robot ends up in Washington, D.C., fountain

[Enoff]

Security robot ends up in Washington, D.C., fountain
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-dc-knightscape-k5-robot-falls-into-fountain/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightscope

http://www.knightscope.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RmDTqismao

 

[Enoff]

 

[nobby-w]

Here's a Dalek that I found in an art/memorabilia dealership just around from the flat where I used to live in Sunningdale. The sign taped to the bottom says 'Original 1963 Dalek Prop.'

I briefly thought of seeing how much it cost, but then I realised that I lived on a first floor flat and you'd never get it up the stairs ...

True story.

As an aside, if you carry on down the road you get to a little village called Chobham, which unremarkable except for being the place that Chobham armour is named after. The tank factory down the road from Chobham is no longer a tank factory and has been leased out to Pinewood Studios. If you hang a left and continue down the road from Chobham you get to Horsell, a suburb of Woking. Horsell Common was the site of the Martian landing in War of the Worlds. and there is a stainless steel sculpture of a Martian in the main pedestrian shopping area in Woking.

 

[Carlobrand]

Here's a Dalek that I found in an art/memorabilia dealership just around from the flat where I used to live in Sunningdale. The sign taped to the bottom says 'Original 1963 Dalek Prop.'

I briefly thought of seeing how much it cost, but then I realised that I lived on a first floor flat and you'd never get it up the stairs ...

"First floor flat" with stairs? You guys number things differently there?

 

[Spinward Scout]

Security robot ends up in Washington, D.C., fountain

Extermin - wait! What?!? Where are you taking me? Put me down!

 

[baktegon]

...a tank factory and has been leased out to Pinewood Studios....

Pinewood Studios is great! I work with those guys, they do really solid work.

I just finished the latest season of DW and I have to say, I enjoyed it. Bill was a fun companion.

I'm excited for Doctor 13 as well, I liked her in Broadchurch.

 

[Xerxeskingofking]

"First floor flat" with stairs? You guys number things differently there?

yes.

ground floor, first floor, second, ect.

 

[nobby-w]

"First floor flat" with stairs? You guys number things differently there?

Yes we do. You'd also be amazed at how we spell things and what side of the road we drive on.

 

[Barrel]

"First floor flat" with stairs? You guys number things differently there?

In Europe what Americans (and Canadians?) call the first floor is usually called the ground floor, and they start numbering with the floor above that, what we Yanks would call the second floor. At least that's how it was when I did a semester abroad in Spain.

 

[aramis]

"First floor flat" with stairs? You guys number things differently there?

Yes, the brits do. G-1-2-3-4-5 instead of 1-2-3-4-5-6.
I don't know about the other anglophiles numbering conventions for floors.

I've noticed that a lot of US west coast buildings with 14+ floors have a 13th, but a chunk do not... so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16....
One had "...12A, 12B, 14..."

 

[Hyphen]

"First floor flat" with stairs? You guys number things differently there?

Yep. And a humourous obstacle in "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?", when they get out of the lift on the wrong floor while desperately racing to protect people from a bomb.

Same thing happened when they first opened Tuggeranong Office Park in Canberra. The floors were numbered in American (nobody knows why; was the architect a Yank?) but the lifts were numbered properly, in Australian. So the poor bloody movers would get in the lift to take a pile of chairs or tables or computers to the third floor, and get out on "Level 4" instead...

Shenanigans ensued for months and months, until eventually someone organised for the lift buttons to be renumbered.

 

[kilemall]

Robot form factor reminds me of the turretbots from the game Portal.