AI incident investigations are drifting toward explaining the spark rather than interrogating the complex assemblage of human, system, and organizational failures inviting catastrophe.
I opportunistically recorded a video of a delivery robot that _almost immediately_ got into trouble. What follows is an introduction to the design elements of delivery robots, followed by how these elements produced and recovered from a series of unfortunate events.
As someone that turned down an offer to work on cashierless checkout four years ago, I was keen to learn how far the technology has come. What I found was a fascinating case study in designing the human environment for computer vision systems, and I also went home with several items that I didn't pay for...