Dec 7 2009Don't Worry, I Won't: "Please Do Not Board The Elevator With The Robot"
You'd have got to be out of your gotdamn mind to board an elevator with a robot, but apparently students at the Stanford Medical School need to reminded not to. And these kids are gonna be performing surgeries? Yeah, not on me they're not!
After finishing my doctoral work, I returned to Stanford Medical School to finish up the MD part of my MD/PhD....While waiting for the elevator, a large washing-machine-sized robot--a unit that had then been recently introduced at Stanford Hospital to pick up and deliver x-ray films--pulled up along side me. After waiting patiently together, we both entered the elevator. As the door closed, the robot began to whir and then quite rapidly spun around 180 degrees to re-orient itself for exiting.
The large spinning robot nearly knocked me down in the elevator. It was somewhat frightening to be trapped in an elevator with little clearance for a massive spinning robot.I recall being somewhat concerned about what might happen if a fragile patient, walking along with an intravenous pump, or a medical team with a patient on a gurney, entered the elevator with the robot.
What kind of world do we live in where people have to be REMINDED to not get on an elevator WITH A ROBOT. Do people not take any responsibility for their own personal safety anymore? And, if not, do they really deserve to live? These questions and more answered in my forthcoming novel, 'No, You Actually Don't Deserve To Live', available in hardcover this spring.
Do not board the elevator with robot [boingboing]
Thanks to Drew, who won't even board a moving sidewalk with a robot because he's not an idiot.
Reader Comments
1. Riley - December 7, 2009 6:32 PM
YEYAH
2. FIRST! - December 7, 2009 6:32 PM
FIRST111!!!!!
3. Dishy Dishyington - December 7, 2009 6:43 PM
Kid looks good in stripes. Like a young Leonard Nimoy.
Hope he'd not eaten by the whirling robot.
4. jim - December 7, 2009 6:47 PM
this is racist against robots, which is awesome. The only real use for robots are for us to have something to discriminate against and not feel bad.
5. Daniel - December 7, 2009 6:48 PM
ROBOT DISCRIMINATION!
6. Leo @ What The Food? - December 7, 2009 6:50 PM
Hmmm, yeh I got in an elevator with a robot once; it asked me if I wanted to give him a body massage in return for a can of radiator fluid and a roll of copper wire... Those damn robots, creepy!!
http://www.whatthefood.dishist.com (my blog) =)
7. Ollie Williams - December 7, 2009 7:00 PM
Holy broken tag at the top, Batman!
8. Brrrrian - December 7, 2009 7:13 PM
Up to your DOOM!
jus sayin
9. Black - December 7, 2009 7:15 PM
While waiting for the elevator, a large washing-machine-sized robot--a unit that had then been...
This robot must be the offspring of the "washing machine and humping robot" from Robot chicken.
http://foolishgadgets.com/files/2009/01/robot-chicken-humping-robot.jpg
Who agrees with me?
10. greg - December 7, 2009 7:21 PM
wow this is almost as funny as this-
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5789411/
11. Hayley - December 7, 2009 7:21 PM
When I first read the title of this post, I looked at the picture and immediately tried to identify the robot.
I thought it was the kid for a good 5 minutes.
Good write up GW. I lol'd.
12. rad to the power of me - December 7, 2009 7:28 PM
@11 HAHA cute Hay.
@7 thanks you! i was praying that wasn't just me or the prerobot i'm typing on.
hmm i can say that a medical school/HOSPITAL is not the best place to institute a independent mobile working robot. let's just stick to letting them sniff out bombs and then let them poke the bombs to see what happens
13. Writch - December 7, 2009 7:33 PM
They need to add little diagrams showing the spinning robot and a person being thrown back against the wall.
14. Pew³ - December 7, 2009 7:42 PM
Another reason to take the stairs.
15. Ikecube - December 7, 2009 7:57 PM
That dude doesn't look like a robot - he looks like NED FLANDERS.
OMG ROBOTS that look like NED FLANDERS! We're all in f'ing trouble now!
16. Kafloobop - December 7, 2009 8:11 PM
I just want to see a picture of this robot
17. STOMPY - December 7, 2009 8:22 PM
I like the title of snack room ninja, come to think of it, we have a quiet little alcove in which our snackroom is located, perhaps I can sneak in there and use the wireless I found and start my posting, otherwise I have a mision to find out which shitter I can pick up a wireless signal in and be a shit room ninja!
As for robots, GFS and I are still waiting for our pleasurebot models.... as steven tyler once sang "love in an elevator, loving it up while a pleasurebot is giving me a handjoooooooooob...."
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19. GW IS A ROBOT LOVER!!! - December 7, 2009 8:39 PM
I know GW would be the FIRST into the elevator because he's a ROBOT LOVING TRAITOR!!!
20. Just Sayin' - December 7, 2009 9:21 PM
Oh man #7 good call. I thought it some kind of GW hidden message at first, like he was being held at robotic gunpoint and he was trying to get help from us!!!
And # 11, me too. Totally thought it was the kid.
21. Crazywow - December 7, 2009 9:31 PM
I would SO totally get it the elavator with that robot, Riding on top of it like the mechanized little bitch it is.
and yes I also thought..."What the hell is Ned Flanders doing holding a "mini-Spock " robot?
22. naas - December 7, 2009 11:17 PM
@17 snackmachine ninja my young warrior.... Be proud to be recognized in a such rare group of carbohydriatic assassins because the demand for your excellence is higher than zeus' video porn collection right now
23. naas - December 7, 2009 11:24 PM
If anyone ever asks you 'have you ever seen a halfling android before?' ... you can now say 'yes but it didn't talk' without being a liar
24. Hedgehog - December 8, 2009 1:01 AM
Damn uppity robot should have waited for the next elavator.
25. ddv - December 8, 2009 1:01 AM
The subject of the photo has a new story on MSNBC today: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34302225/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/
ddv
26. pro - December 8, 2009 2:54 AM
I totally side with you GW. These things would kill indiscriminately. I'll be looking forward to your book!
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28. Plastic Card - December 8, 2009 4:25 AM
What does an elevator have to do with Robots? I know you are obsessed with robots, but the stuff you mentioned isnt coming soon. Write my words !!
29. Closet Nerd - December 8, 2009 8:25 AM
@28 Read the article dumb ass MLIG
30. Jaded Icon - December 8, 2009 8:30 AM
I would be glad the robot left me off with a warning......we just don't mix, us and robots. I hear besides killing humans they also cheat on their taxes.....MLIG
31. Trevor - December 8, 2009 10:51 AM
My local hospital takes digital x-rays and emails the file. This robot's usage seems kind of uh, outdated.
32. SmsVar, Sms Gönder, Toplu Sms - December 8, 2009 2:25 PM
childiren nice :) good photo..
thank you..
33. Paul - December 8, 2009 3:05 PM
YOU F'ING RACISTS! I suppose you all think robots should have their own bathrooms and drinking fountains too. Bastards.
34. yo - February 21, 2010 1:44 AM
yo
35. yo - February 21, 2010 1:46 AM
@ 32 thats creepy