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A comment on Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System (2015).

Re:Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver Sy... by davidw on Sunday July 08, 2018 @10:36AM (#17483970)
Do people in Japan let groups of small kids wander around malls like that? People in the US can be overly paranoid sometimes, but I don't think I'd be ok with that for my kids.
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Re:Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver Sy... by jmvoodoo on Sunday July 08, 2018 @10:39AM (#17483985)
Japanese children are notoriously independent [0]. Very different from the US.

[0]https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/09/why-are-littl...

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Re:Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver Sy... by nthuser on Sunday July 08, 2018 @10:40AM (#17483990)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15944419
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Re:Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver Sy... by matt_the_bass on Sunday July 08, 2018 @10:38AM (#17483979)
That would not surprise me since little kids often take the subway themselves to go to school at age 5 or 6
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Re:Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver Sy... by mac01021 on Sunday July 08, 2018 @10:59AM (#17484077)
What is it that you fear would happen to them?
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Re:Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver Sy... by davidw on Sunday July 08, 2018 @12:07PM (#17484439)
Primarily that they'd embarrass me by ganging up and picking on robots.

But besides that that they'd do something stupid, or wander off, or something else along those lines.

I don't think this is just a US attitude, either - when we lived in Italy, we wouldn't have let our kids wander around the mall there, either, nor would other parents.

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Re:Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver Sy... by TomMarius on Sunday July 08, 2018 @02:32PM (#17485329)
Yes, and it's normal here where I live (in Europe) as well. I used to always go to the toy store while parents were shopping.
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Re:Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver Sy... by mcguire on Sunday July 08, 2018 @06:48PM (#17486705)
It used to be normal here in the US....
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