SEOUL: A city council in South Korea said on Wednesday (Jun 26) their first administrative officer robot was defunct after throwing itself down some stairs, with local media mourning the country's first robot suicide. South Korea's Gumi City Council announced the robot was found unresponsive after having a
So it just fell down the stairs, and they are just using suicide as a joke.
Or anthropomorphizing it, expressing sympathy for it, in a country with a lot of suicides and a love of robots.
The fact they’re not going to just replace it with another robot could argue for either case.