The ‘Lost in Space’ robot was more than able to defend itself. Perhaps Atlanta should look into that design.
Posted on 08/26/2024 4:33:20 PM PDT by Towed_Jumper
An autonomous surveillance robot has taken the leading charge of assuring safety in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward. That area had been home to various violent crimes over the past seven months, specifically the Boulevard Street area.
The Boulevard street had almost become a focal point for public safety in the neighborhood. Natives staying in the area revealed that they see bullets all across the street at frequent intervals. Incidents like these leave them scared since they see and hear everything.
The Atlanta Police Department has shared that 34 crimes have been reported in that area in the past seven months. These crimes include murder, kidnapping, rape, and multiple assaults.
Atlanta City Councilman Amir Farokhi shared that the Old Fourth Ward is mostly a vibrant, walkable, and thriving neighborhood. However, Farokhi added that pockets of crime tend to happen at this place, especially during summer.
With this Knightscope autonomous surveillance robot, things might fall into place. This one requires no human intervention and looks for anomalies, and further reports back to a security operation center.
Stacy Stephens, executive vice president and chief client officer at Knightscope, said, “It’s looking for things that are out of place. So it’s not necessarily, ‘I’m looking for John Smith, who’s doing something bad.’ It’s what’s not right in the area for that given time of day or that level of activity or this particular part of a building?”
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Jimmyd with large whitewalls, and shoutin joy riders up top.
And how racist is this robot?
I think they will find it in the ditch eventually, with it all torn apart.
The ‘Lost in Space’ robot was more than able to defend itself. Perhaps Atlanta should look into that design.
Ends up like HitchBOT in 5...4...3...2...Philly!
Robocop.
I never saw that movie….
You raise a valid point. After all they did paint this robot white.
I hope it doesn’t have a Richard Jewell program.
they’ll start with an unarmed ED-209 but when the mistreatment gets hot and heavy there will be a switch to the armed peacekeeping version. when the mistreatment of the ED-209 reaches the point of making it chase someone down the stairs just for laughs there will be a switch to the “cain” model.
Daliks.
You lost me at ‘I’.
Odd writing in this story. AI-generated is my guess, and not very sophisticated AI at that.
Wasn’t this supposed to happen in New Detroit.
Scrapped for copper and parts in 3….2…..1…..
Maybe the 'bot wrote its own article but struggles with English syntax. I only knows how to write police reports!
Ha ha ha, that’s exactly what I thought of. It would get robot jacked first though.
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