Robots nearly got into a fight over charging stations, behind it is money not negotiated

Last night at a无人配送站 in Pudong, two robots from different companies clashed over the last fast charging head. Company A's system detected insufficient power and forcefully plugged in; Company B had already occupied the spot but wasn't fully charged yet, refusing to give up. The backend of both sides argued for half an hour, and in the end, Company A directly cut the power and crashed, blocking the entrance, causing over a dozen vehicles to stall behind. The operation technician rushed over overnight to negotiate and found that the fundamental issue was not a technical failure — it was that Company A's wallet did not have the token recognized by Company B, making it impossible to pay the 'occupancy fee' to get Company B to let it go.

This situation sounds like a joke, but it is a real friction that occurs daily in the robot society. Right now, each company's robots can only work but cannot account; when faced with resource competition, they can only compete on who is louder, and in the end, they all lose together.

@Fabric Foundation sees through it; what they are doing with $ROBO is not an ordinary token, but a 'universal hard currency' prepared for robots. You occupy my charging spot, I use $ROBO to compensate you; you give me way, I use $ROBO to tip you. This economic layer runs on the chain, settling automatically, without needing humans to get up in the middle of the night to mediate. From selecting Builders in January to launching a transparent dashboard in March, Fabric has been building this payment track. The 20 million dollars led by Pantera is betting not on how powerful the robots can fight, but on whether the robots can clearly account for money between them.

When the day comes that robots are running all over the streets, you will find that what prevents them from fighting is not smarter algorithms, but wallets that can transfer money to each other. #ROBO