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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Patrol-bots' eyed as surveillance answer
A California start-up is turning out capsule-shaped robots that it says could serve as the eyes and ears of base police units.
Knightscope officials envision its K5 system playing a role in community policing, though its not hard to imagine a military application especially at a time when the Pentagon is eyeing reductions in manpower.
Knightscopes autonomous technology platform is a fusion of robotics, predictive analytics and collaborative social engagement utilized to predict and prevent crime, the company states on its website. That means that in addition to sophisticated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, the K5 is equipped with analytics enabling it to detect threats to people or property and summon police.
According to a recent report in USA today, the Sunnyvale-based company made its first K5 public in December. The prototype, it said, was able to scan an area in 270-degree sweeps to photographically map it. Four mid-mounted cameras can scan up to 1,500 license plates per minute, according to the report.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/03/patrol-bots-eyed-as-surveillance-answer/
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'Patrol-bots' eyed as surveillance answer (Original Post)
Jesus Malverde
Feb 2014
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dionysus
(26,467 posts)1. i wonder how useful R2D2 wannabe would be if someone covered it with a black trash bag...
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)3. Reminds me of the balloons used to disable cctv.
merrily
(45,251 posts)2. There is no one surveillance answer, just method after method after method.