Posted on 09/23/2023 12:31:19 PM PDT by CodeToad
The K5 is massive robot with no arms, no legs and four surveillance cameras.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is implementing a new security measure at the Times Square subway station. It's deploying a security robot to patrol the premises, which authorities say is meant to "keep you safe." We're not talking about a RoboCop-like machine or any human-like biped robot — the K5, which was made by California-based company Knightscope, looks like a massive version of R2-D2. Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of privacy rights group Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, has a less flattering description for it, though, and told The New York Times that it's like a "trash can on wheels."
K5 weighs 420 pounds and is equipped with four cameras that can record video but not audio. As you can guess from the image above, the machine also doesn't come with arms — it didn't quite ignore Mayor Eric Adams' attempt at making a heart. The robot will patrol the station from midnight until 6 AM throughout its trial run that's running over the next two months. But K5 won't be doing full patrols for a while, since it's spending its first two weeks mapping out the station and roaming only the main areas and not the platforms.
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That thing is going to be tagged in a New York minute.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha
There are way too many willful idiots in America.
i give it 12 hours at most before it is completely trashed.
Yes, I expect we will see the work of the graffiti vandals soon.
Who is the mini robocop going to be looking for? And if it’s no one then why waste the money?
The headline making case of computer system’s facial recognition software that found in the large criminal record database some surprises including....
Using Rekognition, we built a face database and search tool using 25,000 publicly available arrest photos.
Our test used Amazon Rekognition to compare images of members of Congress with a database of mugshots. The results included 28 incorrect matches.
The false matches were disproportionately of people of color, including six members of the Congressional Black Caucus, among them civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). These results demonstrate why Congress should join the ACLU in calling for a moratorium on law enforcement use of face surveillance.”
www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/
Disgraceful, the largest police department in the US needs a robot to patrol the subway station at the cross roads of the world.
420 pounds of scrap metal will be recycled in less than 2 weeks by yutes doing their jobs
Should have rigged it up with a huge Tesla coil. Beat it and it fries everything within 12 feet.
Looks like it eats donuts and is overweight.
They already have one of those in New Jersey.
Exterminate exterminate.😁
Target of opportunity
Will it be able to clean the feces from its cameras?
The NYPD will probably assign at least two uniformed officers to protect the robot.
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