“RoboCop” may have been a film with a robot-policeman that satirized violence, but it “comes alive” on the streets of Atlanta, USA, since a machine will patrol. Knightscope has developed a semi-autonomous robot that patrols the Boulevard, where crime has skyrocketed in recent months. “We’re finding bullets in the road and things like that,” said Andre Johnson, who lives in the area. “I’m afraid. I see everything. I listen to everything,” he added. The robot is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs 190 kilograms and according to Stacey Stevens, Knightscope’s executive vice president and customer manager: “It is a fully autonomous – that is, without human intervention – robot that roams within a specific space and looks for anomalies that it can report to a security operations center.” “He’s looking for things that are out of place and time. So, he is not looking for a specific person who is doing something bad. It detects something that is out of place in the area or in a particular building […]
Source: News Beast
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