A Silicon Valley company has introduced what may prove the next generation in night watchmen a 5-foot-tall, 300-pound crime-fighting robot designed to stand sentry in the wee hours of the night.
The K5 Autonomous Data Machine is intended “to augment private security services on corporate campuses and in large, vacant buildings and warehouses,” according to its developer, Knightscope, which added, “Tedious and monotonous monitoring should be handled by the K5, leaving ‘hands-on’ activities to security personnel.”
“We founded Knightscope after what happened at Sandy Hook,” the company’s co-founder William Santana Li told the New York Times. “You are never going to have an armed officer in every school.”‘This is like R2-D2’s evil twin.’
– Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center
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