The notion of a panhandling robot may sound like pure fiction, but roboticists in South Korea have worked together with MIT Media Lab to create with DONA, a motion-sensing bot built to solicit street donations.
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-why-you-never-give-money-to-a-homeless-terminat-5536501
DONA’s makers are donating the robot’s earnings to fund education in the Ivory Coast, so you won’t feel suckered dropping some won in its collection cup. Also, it’s a helluva lot less obnoxious than some prior experiments in mechanical mall soliciting.
https://gizmodo.com/the-future-of-annoying-is-an-advertising-robot-that-cha-5746426
[Via Plastic Pals]
