Posted on 02/07/2019 9:51:08 PM PST by BenLurkin
According to Mountain View-based Knightscope, the K5 can autonomously recharge itself and is equipped with automatic license plate recognition, thermal imaging, and a two-way intercom that allows for human-to-human voice interaction.
It’s also capable of using “force multiplying physical deterrence” for situations involving potential crimes or other events, according to the company’s website, but it’s not clear what those specific measures are.
The five-foot, 300-pound security bots are also branded for their specific location: the robot in Malibu, for example, is seen sporting a Malibu Village logo.
The robots, produced by the California tech startup Knightscope, are intended to assist in crime prevention and law enforcement.
Clients can reportedly rent the robots from Knightscope for $6.50 an hour – currently less than half the minimum wage for human employees in Malibu.
But the human cost of such technology is still unknown.
The company was forced to issue an apology in July 2016 when a robot security guard knocked over a 17-month-old boy and ran over his right foot, leaving him with minor injuries.
When a K9 version of the robot was deployed in San Francisco in Dec. 2017 by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) to help keep homeless people away from its property, the robot was knocked down and smeared in feces, even as it reportedly reduced car break-ins.
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How about putting some of the meaner versions of these things on the southern border, and on the Calfornia—rest-of-the-country border?
Sentry-bots.
Yea we need ROBO COP! Or that Cyborg killer!
If this is going to catch on, those Cop-Bots need to be extra bottom heavy. I seem to recall at least one instance of a Security Robot being tipped over and made immobile.
In fact, there was a story of a robot being that either fell or was pushed into a swimming pool, thus ‘killing’ the robot.
Only fit for scrapping after that.
Can’t you here that flat, monotone robotic voice saying
“Please don’t push me into the pool.
I will instantly short out and be unable to complete my security round!”
I guess the force multiplier would be the 300 pounds laying on top of someone’s back, but, just out of curiosity....what would happen if you hit a robot with a tazer?
Is it permitted to “carry”?
Exactly! Lol
Skynet is not far behind. John Connor, where are you?
The robot of the next generation will resemble a tool, not a human. Perhaps along along the lines of “Interstellar” TARS & CASE.
Perhaps even something like the Mars Sojourner rover, the Opportunity rover, Spirit rover, and, the Curiosity rover. Or remote controlled EOD type of vehicles.
A Terminator device is centuries away.
Robot security will never be accepted until they can shoot pet dogs.
Robodogs ... pretty nifty looking, but I have heard that they are not that stable unless traversing over optimal conditions of terrain.
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