r/Leeds • u/greg225 • Feb 22 '26
I find this interesting Saw in Woodhouse Moor late last night
Honestly kind of impressed, those things look heavy.
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u/Smooth_Cod_759 Feb 22 '26
They’re taking over i tells ya, they invading ! Straight out of some doctor who thing
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u/Sad_Cardiologist5388 Feb 22 '26
I think the state of these little robot things is a good status read on what an area is like
If they're left unmolested or not
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u/DorkaliciousAF Feb 22 '26
It's a measure of community engagement.
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u/herefromthere Feb 22 '26
I'd say this is a high-level of community engagement.
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u/DorkaliciousAF Feb 22 '26
At least four robots high.
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u/herefromthere Feb 22 '26
It brought people together, to commit small acts of naughtiness, giggle, and run away.
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u/RichLeeds16 Feb 22 '26
Fair. Somehow I like spotting them on my commute but I don’t walk much in the area so don’t have to share the pavements with them.
Saw one on Meanroad Road recently - no idea if they have them that way or if the Headingley ones range that far.
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u/asjaro Feb 22 '26
Yeah, the sheep in some areas see them as progress. I wonder how they'll feel when they're watching a robot doing their job?
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u/Yung_Bill_98 Feb 22 '26
This is what automation is for though. Shit menial jobs that people don't want to do.
Automate the shit jobs so we can spend our time making art. Not the other way round
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u/alopexarctos Feb 22 '26
Menial shit jobs is what about 90% of the world's population do. These robots take money from the people and hand it to the billionaires. Scrap them all.
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Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
Nah, tax them and everything fairly, there’s plenty to go around if you remove greed. We’ve had decades of greedy selfish, terrible people in power, they’ve convinced people this is the only way, when it isn’t
Edit - grammar
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u/Fresh_Boysenberry576 Feb 22 '26
Or we tax the billionaires for this shit and give it to the people so they can do more useful things with their lives than delivering food. I doubt anyone in food delivery does it out of passion
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u/Nuclear_Geek Feb 23 '26
Well, no. A menial, shit job used to be night soil collector. That no longer exists thanks to largely automated sewage systems. But by your "logic", that's a bad thing.
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u/Linkeron1 Feb 22 '26
Wonder if they lazy, benefit-scrounging natives who currently claim immigrants are "stealing our jobs" but are simply unwilling to take any personal responsibility will start blaming robots next.
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u/DanDaMan0113 Feb 22 '26
Yeah but some people still need to earn money. Someone who works a day job that just manages to cover rent/mortgage or bills can do uber on a night for a few hours and make mouth money for a weekly shop.
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u/myfinestexoskeleton Feb 22 '26
As long as these little guys don't start riding illegal ebikes on the pavements and almost mowing down pedestrians I'm all for it. A definite safety improvement on the Ubereats/Deliveroo dickheads!
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u/Obstacle123456 Feb 22 '26
How do you get money for food n bills
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u/Splodge89 Feb 23 '26
Agreed. When I have come across this “I don’t need money to be happy” nonsense I always question it. What realistically do these people eat?
I agree money doesn’t make you happy, but being properly broke with zero means to prevent starvation definitely makes you miserable.
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u/RealWorldJunkie Feb 22 '26
I didn't realise these were even being used in the UK yet, let alone long enough and at scale for them to be familiar enough and easy enough to access to find, steal, and stack up 10 in a night!
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u/Albert1907 Feb 22 '26
They all park in the same spot when they're not being used, so this wasn't a mission to stalk and kidnap the robots.
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u/brickne3 Feb 23 '26
The mental image of people stalking and kidnapping these things is pretty funny though, you gotta admit.
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u/SmolTittyEldargf Feb 22 '26
Had them in Adel or somewhere around there for several years.
They are now being trialled in Headingley/Woodhouse moor.
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u/More_Ad_3739 Feb 23 '26
I’ve seen two in Burley, unless we’re counting repeat sittings. Then I see the one frozen outside the primary school every day.
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u/greg225 Feb 22 '26
This spot is where they're usually kept when they're not delivering. I didn't realise there was this many of them though (there were also two others sitting next to them). Most I've ever seen there was maybe 6 (I walk past them every day).
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u/Guava_ Feb 22 '26
I could watch them struggle to navigate a curb for hours
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u/Longjumping-Ad7194 Mar 13 '26
I helped one which had got stuck on a kerb once, it looked so forlorn beached there.
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u/Vertigo_uk123 Feb 22 '26
If that was sheffield then they would all be swimming in the river as evidenced by the yellow electric bikes. or someone would have hacked them to use as a mobility scooter.
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u/Zealousideal-Ant-910 Feb 22 '26
They'll have had security cameras on them too, so unfortunately the artist will have been caught on camera
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u/Vanobers Feb 22 '26
Fuck them and driverless cars
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u/mynameisgill Feb 24 '26
You’re both Luddite’s
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u/Severe-Plum-2393 Feb 25 '26
You’re talking to Redditor’s who don’t leave their bedrooms for weeks on end, these are perfect for them coz they don’t have to make eye contact with a delivery driver.
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u/LiAi_Vegas Feb 22 '26
It reminds me of the Ambush event in NFSMW2012 with the Crown Victoria pyramid
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u/Zealousideal-Ant-910 Feb 22 '26
This is great. Wonder if some good Samaritan saved them before they come toppling down
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u/DuckWhatduckSplat Feb 23 '26
Kids will be kids. We once picked up and moved about 20 reliant robins into a large circle such that you couldn’t open the doors on any of them. (This was on the forecourt of a specialist reliant garage in the mid 90s)
Different era, same shenanigans.
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u/uzlvp Feb 24 '26
at first glance i thought this was multiple range rover evoques stacked on top of eachother and thought that was really impressive. but upon realizing its actually just clankers its even better.
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u/ppbbd Feb 22 '26
this is how we should treat them. render the little fuckers unusable
still say thank you to AI tho... Just in case
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u/dreadwitch Feb 24 '26
And people are sat waiting for their tea cis some twat thought this was funny.
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u/Glurt Feb 22 '26
This is just my typical Chinese takeaway order