The Gumi town hall robot, which helped residents with their administrative tasks, appears to have thrown itself from the top of a staircase, the municipal team reported on Wednesday. An investigation is opened and the press is asking questions.
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He is a civil servant like no other who is made of plastic and electronic circuits since he is a civil servant robot, which was found lying motionless on the ground at the bottom of a staircase in 1,000 pieces, reported , Wednesday June 26, the town hall for which he was employed. The robot from the town hall of Gumi, South Korea, has been helping city residents with their administrative tasks for more than a year, every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
“He was one of us” lamented one of his colleagues at the town hall, visibly very saddened by his disappearance. It must be said that he was not a robot like the others. Very sophisticated, he was even capable of moving alone between floors by calling the elevator, to the point that he was given his own civil service agent card.
In South Korea, the death of robots is not a joke. An investigation has therefore been opened and all of its parts have been collected and will be analyzed by the company that designed it to understand the reasons for the tragedy. Even if it seems that it decided on its own to end its short life as a civil servant. Indeed, witnesses to the scene say that they saw it “go around in circles as if something was there” before he literally threw himself down the stairs.
From now on, the press asks very seriously and on the front page: “why this hardworking civil servant acted in this way“, or “Was the work too hard for the robot?“. Unless he was just trying to escape human stupidity in my own way. In any case, his story already raises a whole bunch of questions about the integration of robots into the world of work. Besides, the Gumi city hall does not currently plan to replace him with another robot.
