

It could, if it was told to. It’s likely there is an idle or autonomous mode the operater was supposed to set it to before taking off the headset. Instead it was left in “replicate every action the operator streams to you mode” until the stream abruptly cut off while the robot wasn’t in a balance point. It’s possible the robot normally has an amount of delay/wait time when the signal is lost before reverting to some failsafe state. But since the signal was cutoff while it was flailing it’s arms above it’s head, that’s alot of weight moving significantly above it’s center of gravity and suddenly stopping with no compensatory movement offset of any other part of it’s body.










I think it hitting the table was after the operator thought they set it to idle so they could remove the headset. Like basically since the robot is “no longer mimicking their actions” they don’t have to worry about where they are moving their hands anymore.