34
This article is more than 1 year old
Goodbye cruel world: Robot 'commits suicide' in KITCHEN FIREBALL
Marvin's robotic and spiritual kin reduced to ashes in Austrian kitchen
Fri 15 Nov 2013 //
06:02 UTC
A robotic cleaner delivered a damning indictment of life in Hinterstoder, Austria, on Saturday, by trundling onto a kitchen stove where it ended its days as a pile of ashes.
The local fire brigade reports it was alerted to a house fire at around 1.30pm, and having entered the premises wearing breathing equipment, found the incinerated robot on top of the hotplate of a wood-burning stove.
The 44-year-old owner had apparently left the device switched off on an adjacent worktop, before going out with his family.
Left to its own devices, the robot reactivated and wheeled itself into the hereafter. ®
Biting the hand that feeds IT
