Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailA robot working in a local supermarket lasted only a week before it was fired for making the customers uneasy. It's job was to interact with customers through jokes and greetings and help them locate items within the store. When the robot was tasked with handing out free tasters, it wasn't able to match its human counterparts. “Unfortunately Fabio didn’t perform as well as we had hoped,” she said. It was not able to move around the shop and direct customers to the items they were looking for.

Source: Daily Mirror January 22, 2018 10:30 UTC