Crime Fighting Robots are Already Here

Is the Knightscope K5 the future of security?

A Silicon Valley start-up is renting out security robots to help fight crime.  From Inverse:

The autonomous patrol units weigh in at more than 300 pounds and are about five feet tall. Their control and movements are based on the same technology that power the new Google Self-Driving cars. The K5 gathers important real-time, on-site data through its numerous sensors, which is then processed through a predictive analytics engine. There it is combined with existing business, government, and crowdsourced social data sets to determine if there is a concern or threat in the area. If so, an issue is created with an appropriate alert level and a notification is sent to the community and authorities through the Knightscope Security Operations Center (KSOC), a browser based user interface.

Knightscope's website offers to rent out the disturbingly Dalek-looking machines for around $6.25 an hour, far less than minimum wage.

For more, check out Reason TV's "7 Creepy Robots for Cops":

Comments

[Brian]

That’s how the Killer Robot Apocalypse starts: robot cops with cop union rules, patrolling the streets to “prevent crime.”

All it needs is a gun, and it’s “I feared for public safety!” Logic module, and we’re all toast.

[OneOut]

I was curious to know if they enjoyed qualified immunity.

[Agammamon]

YOU HAVE FIFTEEN SECONDS TO COMPLY!

[suetonius]

Hungarian truck driver fights through Syria’s best and brightest in Calais.

Coming to America soon too, if we let the left have its way.

[Heroic Mulatto]

It’s the EDM playing in the background from the trucker’s radio that makes the whole video.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

I was laughing at that throughout.

[DEG]

“What in God’s cock is going on here?” did it for me.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

They actually have the balls to throw rocks at the trucks. Just like they learned back home fighting the ‘occupation.’

[sloopyinTEXAS]

ED-209: [menacingly] Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply.
Dick Jones: I think you’d better do what he says, Mr. Kinney.
[Mr. Kinney drops the pistol on the floor. ED-209 advances, growling]
ED-209: You now have fifteen seconds to comply.
[Mr. Kinney turns to Dick Jones, who looks nervous]
ED-209: You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9.
[entire room of people in full panic trying to stay out of the line of fire, especially Mr. Kinney]
ED-209: You have five seconds to comply.
Kinney: Help…! Help me!
ED-209: Four… three… two… one… I am now authorized to use physical force!

[Brett L]

“Without cops, this city will tear itself apart!”

Best line of the movie.

[Winston]

Back when Detroit being a decrepit shithole was an exaggerated dystopian satire.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

It’s funny that Detroit went the way it did while New York, or at least midtown Manhattan, went the opposite way in the same time span.

[Los Doyers]

I’ve heard from some that although Detroit is dead broke, a lot of the areas are still super pretty, both in an urban decay/overgrowth and the gorgeous downtown architecture kind of way.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

And Oakland County is flooded with money.

[Los Doyers]

Fuck the Warriors!

[sloopyinTEXAS]

this place.

[Los Doyers]

Fuck Michigan! Also, I know where Oakland County is, I just wanted to stir up some good ol American sports hate.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

Oh, my bad.

But I don’t think anybody on here gives a shit about the NBA. In fact, I don’t know anybody that gives a shit about the NBA. It’s the worst professional sports league in the history of mankind.

[Contrarian P]

I’d rather watch the NBA than MLB or soccer any day. I like the NFL, but it’s a different animal.

I’m pretty sure there are loads of candidates for worst sports league that are way worse than the NBA…the XFL springs immediately to mind.

[Los Doyers]

or soccer any day

Now you’re just being deliberately contrarian.

[Sevo]

http://www.theblaze.com/storie…..reet-view/

[Brian]

NY can push the BS much farther before they run out of other people’s money.

Detroit drank the cool aid and believed that the BS drove the evonomy, implying that it could never run out of money.

[Contrarian P]

New York also had significant advantages in terms of Wall Street, broadway, tourism, and so forth. Detroit has cars. That’s about it. They put all their eggs in the auto industry basket and that ship took on a lot of water, if it hasn’t totally sunk.

[GILMORE?]

wait a second….

…so the Daleks were just like sentient garbage cans?

I still don’t get why Dr. Who was ever successful. the protagonist is more effete than Roger Moore’s James Bond, and the bad guys make Land of the Lost look “big-budget“. Plus the opening credits made me nauseous.

That said, just wait until these cop robots get unionized.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

Do you remember when I trolled the shit out of several people here by arguing that Moore was the best Bond? Good times.

[Winston]

Barry Nelson was the Best.

[Cowboy]

Everyone knows Dalton was the best actual Bond, even though Connery was the most fun to watch.

[Atanarjuat]

I actually think he was the best Bond. He pulled off the prissy smugness I assume is characteristic of upper class Britons quite naturally. Plus he’s fun and entertaining to watch, and was in great Bond movies like For Your Eyes Only.

[JeremyR]

The Daleks had tiny little people inside them.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

The autonomous patrol units weigh in at more than 300 pounds and are about five feet tall.

So they blend in with the Mexican day laborers they use for odd jobs around the valley? Shrewd.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

Banjos just gave me the stink eye for this.

[Brett L]

It’s true all the way to at least Houston. There are some guys where I work who are probably larger in circumference than height.

[OneOut]

And then the Guatamalans are 5′ and 100 lbs.

About the size of a American 10 or 12 year old boy.

[Los Doyers]

300lbs?! The paisas I see at Home Depot are never more than 150, with 10 pounds of that being recently consumed pastor and beer.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

The ones I’ve always ran into tend to resemble brown bowling balls.

[Los Doyers]

Even the illegal Mexicans in LA are constantly watching their figure, I guess.

[__Warren__]

Why would criminals worry about a thing they can defeat by throwing a blanket over it?

[GILMORE?]

BAN BLANKETS!!

[Banjos]

Ban high-capacity thread counts!

[AlmightyJB]

Prediction. They will all be stolen.

[Swiss Servator]

Sold for scrap.

[GILMORE?]

Story about 3rd world sex-trade needs something to appeal to Westerners.

So they throw “Climate Victims” in the headline.

“The forested islands of the Sundarbans are increasingly considered a trafficking hotspot as climate change impacts ? such as worsening cyclones, sea level rise and loss of land to erosion and saltwater ? mean worsening poverty and living conditions, and more desperation.”

See, these places aren’t shitholes because they’ve got no local economy and are barred from relocating by domestic bureaucratic barriers and local nativism. Its not the corrupt quasi-socialist mess of India. No, its the fucking weather that dun it.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

And no pictures either. What a lousy article.

[Los Doyers]

KAKDWIP, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When the handsome young man came courting her, Sunetra could not believe her luck.

Nope.

[Winston]

Didn’t climate change cause ISIS?

[AlmightyJB]

Climate Change + Commerce Clause = Armegedden

[OneOut]

“sea level rise and loss of land to erosion and saltwater”

And what costal shore has ever not had erosion and seawater ?

[Suthenboy]

I dont understand how they can just keep spinning and spinning this shit. Sea levels are not rising at any measurable rate. Cyclones are not worsening. All of the erosion is natural or from other causes. The climate is not changing and yet they just keep trotting this shit out over and over.

These fucking bullshit artists are doing more damage to civilization than you-know-who.

[Contrarian P]

Voldemort?

[Swiss Servator]

Hastur.

[Slammer]

“In the course of interaction with the Bio-Citizen, a Force Field was activated, a Laser was fired, dead organic matter was Sanitized. All sensory inputs and recording crystals suffered a temporary malfunction. We are treating the investigation as ongoing. Future programmable sequences are under review, and the Coding Staff will review training methods.”

[__Warren__]

RUNNER!

[GILMORE?]

Obama in last SOTU, plans to highlight great Optimism of Democrats in contrast to “Gloom” of GOP

Much back-patting of self to be expected. he saved millions of jobs, kept internet from imploding, introduced the concept of Medicine, and restored order to a chaotic world. Just look, Iran loves us now.

Proof of this of course is … why, the stock market is… well, things are better, you see.

I assume no one on the planet is actually going to watch his speech.

[Los Doyers]

why, the stock market is…

Well the Chinese one is crashing. Take that, commies!

[Winston]

Where’s Tom Friedman and Paul when you need them?

[Winston]

“Optimist of Democrats”: Free Shit and Gun Control for all. Only a gloomy gus would disagree.

[Slammer]

Will they be arresting the sexbots? Or the johns?

[__Warren__]

Maybe john is a sexbot! A really grouchy sexbot.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

I don’t know much, but I know John probably got erect when he heard these robots were 5’0″ and 300 lbs.

[__Warren__]

Name it Porsche and an intern will have to spend 12 hours cleaning the Johnjizz out of it.

[straffinrun]

Lime green sweater vest with matching Turban? Sikh Santorum.

[Rich]

Remember the malfunctioning Officer in THX 1138?

[__Warren__]

Tom Selleck will take care of it.

[Rich]

Get off my Law ‘n’ Order!

[Quincy.]

Needs more dog brains and Plutonium.

[__Warren__]

I saw Dog Brains and Plutonium at Armando’s Fun Furnace in San Diego back in ’92.

The sound system was crappy so it wasn’t a good show.

[Quincy.]

Should have seen Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns instead. They pay scrupulously 3D-modelled attention to the acoustics.

[Itchy Puss]

In NYC, Mid-town Manhattan has special cameras that can determine (via density imaging) whether one is packing a gun. It’s been there since 2012 and people barely know about it.

[GILMORE?]

Thats really plausible and you’re not a stupid cunt

[Agile Cyborg]

A fallout fat boy up the ass of local roboblue would make a nice fizzy evening.

[Atanarjuat]

They should have a robot follow each human cop around and record video to make sure everything they do is above board.

[GamerFromJump]

But are they Super Fighting Robots?