Crime-Fighting Robots Go On Patrol
In Silicon Valley

A new kind of security guard is on patrol in Silicon Valley: Crime-fighting robots that look like they’re straight out of a sci-fi movie.

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com

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"Proof yet again that in the Bay Area, truth is stranger and more horrifying than science fiction. Using similar technology to the new "self-driving" Google cars that have been unleashed on San Francisco's streets as an experiment, these little guys, 300-pound "autonomous" security robots, are designed to "avoid confrontation" but get their person, assuming that the "criminal" isn't another robot. No word on where the first bots, named K5, are currently already busy at work pa...trolling, but there is a long list of "employers" waiting for more to roll off the (likely robotic) assembly line.

Sadly, unlike human police, which many people at least see as menacing, dangerous, and not at all huggable, the reaction to these Star-Warlike guards, according to Stacy Stephens, cofounder of Mountain-View-based Knightscope, the robot guards' maker (parent?), "The vast majority of people see it and go, ‘Oh my God, that’s so cute.’ We’ve had people go up and hug it, and embrace it for whatever reason."
Cindy Milstein
ACAB, even if not red-blooded human beings.