Kicker: Track meet

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NICK EICHER, HOST: In Miami, a food-delivery robot made a stop it could not recover from.

It got stuck on railroad tracks.

Guillermo Dapelo was out walking his dogs, shooting video with his phone.

SOUND: [Dog barking, man saying, “Oh, it’s gonna crush it…”]

As a Brightline train approached the stranded robot, the dog clearly understood the gravity of the situation, but the robot...

SOUND: [Impact]

Well, the robot did not know what hit it.

No one was hurt, unless you count that flattened Uber Eats delivery bot.

AUDIO: NO!

You know, sometimes the future runs on artificial intelligence...sometimes artificial intelligence runs straight into a train.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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