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Originally Posted by MmmHamSandwich
Happy icecream truck singing robots are very.... Japanese of them. In America we'd have blaring warning beeps I'm sure. Obnoxious beeps or obnoxious music. Take your pick, though over there if you accidentally get your extremities or limbs smashed at least you know the machine was happy as it did it.
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Those robots are awesome in person. I worked in a div. Pfizer manufacturing plant for a while and there were similar machines that carried stuff throughout the facility. Someone would do their job, scan it into the robot, and off it would go with the most loud obnoxious "BEEP!" ever on a three second delay, so no cool music or anything. And earplugs were mandatory, so they had to be loud enough to be heard clearly with those in. I forget if they were RFID controlled or what, but they had controllers and location sensors all around the building to let them go from destination to destination and they'd just happily BEEP! their way across the entire plant. Also of note, every one of them had several large buttons with the word "STOP" on it, so if you couldn't get out of the way you could mash the button to escape death. They also had built in proximity sensors so if they were getting close to an object in their path they'd drop to quarter speed or so.
Makes me sort of miss working in a manufacturing plant. It was definitely a fun experience.