K5: The Crime-Predicting Automaton

[NickNitro]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-5...ing-robot-aims-to-patrol-our-streets-by-2015/

California-based Knightscope has designed a 5-foot-tall, 300-pound automaton called the K5 to combat crime and provide for public safety. Oh yeah, and it'll work for just $6.25 an hour.

A scene in the 2004 film "I, Robot" involves an army of rogue NS-5 humanoids establishing a curfew and imprisoning the citizens of Chicago, circa 2035, inside their homes. That's not how Knightscope envisions the coming day of deputized bots.
In its far less frightful future, friendly R2-D2 lookalikes patrol our streets, school hallways, and company campuses to keep us safe and put real-time data to good use. Instead of the Asimov-inspired NS-5, Knightscope, a Silicon Valley-based robotics company, is developing the K5.

 

[Piper Maru]

At least he wont eat all the donuts.

 

[NickNitro]

But he will be getting a salary...what does an automaton do with his salary?

 

[Pink Ranger]

"exterminate ... exterminate ..."

 

[NickNitro]

Oh a serious note though, this will be the first commercial robot who can make its own decisions. Good or bad I think its worth a serious debate. In here, and in congress. We've made enough Scifi movies to know the potential outcome to opening that rabbit hole in letting robots make their own decisions.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Oh please Nick, name me ONE science fiction movie where machines rebel against humanity and launch the world into an apocalyptic chaos from which the only deliverance is death.

You can't, can you? Advantage, Pink Ranger.

 

[NickNitro]

Terminator was a beautiful movie about a mother and son's bond.

 

[Quasimod0]

And iRobot was a gorgeous film about the friendship between a man and his robo-friend