[shnozlak]

Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

http://www.tweenbots.com/

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, "You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”



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Please post other recently found (or experienced) pleasantness.
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[Gironika]

this topic, especially the op post really qualifies as pleasantness to me.
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[Mr Mustache]

Oh, I thought this would be about the hobags thread.
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[Daphaknee]

that dog who swam to a remote island and stayed there for four months before being reunited with its family was pretty nice

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2009/04/canine-survival-story-.html
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the internet's

[oh ok]

given that the domain name was registered before the experiment took place what would she have posted if things had gone "according to plan"
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