"Rise of the Robot Security Guards"

[shart2069]

"Rise of the Robot Security Guards"

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/53 ... ty-guards/

"As the sun set on a warm November afternoon, a quartet of five-foot-tall, 300-pound shiny white robots patrolled in front of Building 1 on Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus."

The ancestor of the Security Bots... or the Daleks?

[merias]

Very cool, a proto-Dalek. This made me laugh:

"I noticed that a K5 in the distance had somehow toppled over the edge of the sidewalk onto the parking-lot asphalt several inches below. A couple of Knightscope folks were needed to pull it upright. Unlike human security guards, these robots still cannot right themselves if they fall."

Also, I wonder how long before crooks are using bright but neutrally aligned kids to find ways to circumvent the robot guard's electronic alert systems?

Scarier would be the walking robots like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJZQ3n-iQYE