Delivery bot contemplating the end of the sidewalk
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  • 620 points Vityviktor

    More like Oddly Sad.

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    158 points mai_tai87

    This is how we'll lose to the robots. They'll prey upon our empathy, like sociopaths.

    I already want to find that robot and make sure it reaches its destination. Damn Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law.

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    26 points Thunderclaw5972

    Killer robots will come about that look like animals and my response, fully knowing it may kill me, would be “Can I pet dat dawg? Cahn eye pet dat dawwwwg?”

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    1 points saysthingsbackwards

    you sure will sound cute when you do it tho

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    6 points velvetRidging

    Give it a few more years and Amazon will be running full social hacks like this on purpose. Little delivery droids will just stop, look lost, and wait for some human to gently carry them over the curb and straight to the front door. Free last mile labor unlocked.

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    3 points Cynical_Tripster

    On the flip side there was that one robot that got wrecked within like 15 minutes of being in Philly

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    12 points AuldAutNought

    Wall-E sad

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    5 points B0B_RO55

    I didn’t realize what sub this was in until I saw your comment. Idk how this would qualify as oddly terrifying

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    2 points Specific_Wrangler256

    More of an "existential" terror.

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    -8 points AskMeForAPhoto

    Stop anthropomorphizing robots. It’s not a person, or an animal, and is the face of unending greed and late stage capitalism.

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    6 points longboringstory

    That robot is looking at late stage socialism and contemplating how much better its life is.

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    14 points GirlNumber20

    You're not the boss of me.

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  • 188 points Tha_Hand

    He just patiently waiting for it to be constructed

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    13 points MintImperial2

    Disassembled? - NOooooooO!

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    4 points GreyWolfTheDreamer

    Or he's silently requesting a drone pickup in order to more efficiently complete his delivery...

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  • 68 points Throwaway1303033042

    “Existential Shel Silverstein”

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    3 points THSSFC

    Shel Servo-stein

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  • 78 points Molkwi

    Yeah, this sub either doesn't know what "oddly" or "terrifying" means anymore.

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    26 points Totally_Not_A_Bot_FR

    And yet, 300+ upvotes.

    Most people just use Reddit like Facebook now. Subreddit topics don't mean shit.

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  • 118 points docatwar

    What is my purpose

    You deliver useless stuff from Amazon

    Oh God

    Yeah join the club pal

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    18 points kevin_rotterdam

    poor guy hit his midlife crisis before his warranty even expired

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    2 points DiscoJuan2000

    Love that scene 🤣

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  • 36 points liilbiil

    Maybe this will get the government to actually invest in pedestrians

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  • 9 points efrav

    Poor thing, suffering a US disease

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  • 15 points Jazzar1n0

    So this is the end of the road..

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  • 7 points Tiumi

    Poor Wall-E 🥲

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  • 8 points BongoFett17

    I found one of these stuck half off the sidewalk, I drove by it, then made a U-turn to go help him, I actually felt bad for it! Felt good to help 🫡

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  • 6 points TeenWhovian

    Aww, poor guy. Give him a little hug!

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  • 7 points alexjolliffe

    This is more oddly cute.

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  • 4 points Verlorenfrog

    One does not simply walk into Mordor

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  • 4 points LennoxLuger

    Who made Johnny 5 sad?

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  • 6 points DrCarrionCrow

    Same, robot. Same.

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  • 9 points Inspector_7

    The machines must wonder what kind of world we have built and why

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  • 4 points Ender618

    I swear its head’s tilted as if feeling defeated by an existential crisis

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  • 4 points BitterD

    There is a place where the sidewalk ends
    and before the street begins,
    and there the grass grows soft and white,
    and there the sun burns crimson bright,
    and there the moon-bird rests from his flight
    to cool in the peppermint wind.

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  • 3 points skynex65

    Can we help him? He looks lost. 😞 I just wanna take him home he’s so cute.

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  • 5 points FluidPiece0

    How is this oddly terrifying?

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  • 2 points Thunderclaw5972

    Poor guy is probably listening to Sound of Silence

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  • 2 points davisty69

    Johnny 5 alive?

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  • 2 points RayneYoruka

    WALL-E

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  • 2 points Anforas

    Bro contemplating his life choices...
    Bots are getting too real.

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  • 2 points other_half_of_elvis

    Just like that Shel Springsteen song.

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    2 points thewarfreak

    Almost had it.

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  • 2 points moshpitwookie

    Just doesn't want to go back to Philadelphia. We all know what happens to 'bots in Philly.

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  • 2 points itsaride

    America, where paths just end out of the blue. I only recently found out this was a thing in the US watching a video from an American (Evan Edinger) who moved to the UK and pops back to make videos about what is different about the two countries.

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  • 2 points SheerKhann

    I dunno why this looks so sad. I guess since I know some asshole is gonna come mess with it

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  • 2 points 2020mademejoinreddit

    "What is my purpose?"

    "It's to deliver butter"

    "Oh god!"

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  • 1 points TFTD2

    ::Requesting air support::

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  • 1 points All-the-pizza

    "when I got there, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well turn around... and keep right on going".

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  • 1 points popokins

    Oh the terror! how terrifying of an image! I'm terrified now. /s

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  • 1 points nightowl_ADHD

    R2-D2's cousin got dumped and he's waiting for a taxi to pick him up 🥺

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  • 1 points 0xffff0001

    number five is alive!

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  • 1 points zzupdown

    It's much harder to get anywhere walking on a sidewalk than it is traveling by road. R2-67's gotta learn that.

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  • 1 points Reality_Defiant

    Oh but they are taking over....

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  • 1 points TheStax84

    I read a book about this in elementary school

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  • 1 points Ikusabe

    Perhaps the AI in it was feeling like a depressed human seeing no way out.

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  • 1 points saysthingsbackwards

    Oh the flipside, this will encourage more physical disability walkway paths

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  • 1 points fizzy_bathwater

    Delivery bots in the suburbs be like

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  • 1 points CaptianBrasiliano

    I wish Shell Silverstein was around to write a poem about this...

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  • 1 points Dr_Guryon

    r/petthedamnbot

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  • 1 points paisleydarling

    Poor little guy :((

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  • 1 points revdon

    Defeated by Shel Silverstein

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  • 1 points hooDio

    delivery companies will lobby for sidewalks and inadvertently make cities slightly more walkable, the irony

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  • 1 points OkPaleontologist8487

    We’ve all been there, little man.

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  • 1 points Cptawesome23

    I laughed so hard at this

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  • 1 points SirGalahead54

    Wall-E ??

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  • 0 points TheRealTechGandalf

    Why TF does it look EXACTLY like WALL-E

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  • -4 points traveler49

    Wrong subreddit, should be r/stupid

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