Produced for the consumption of unwashed masses. By highlighting the failure(s) of these innocuous platforms many (most?) will chalk this up as another proof that the promise of technology is both empty and harmless.
These clumsy physical objects are kept in the public’s eye, while the non-visible cyber technology blasts it’s way toward ubiquity unobserved. The physical bots distract us from the nefarious bots and their relentless march.
OK, time to go back to sleep and to the comfort of my ignorance.