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Crime-Prediction Robot To Patrol Streets By 2015
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.
Officially dubbed the K5 Autonomous Data Machine, the 300-pound, 5-foot-tall mobile robot will be equipped with nighttime video cameras, thermal imaging capabilities, and license plate recognition skills. It will be able to function autonomously for select operations, but more significantly, its software will provide crime prediction that’s reminiscent, the company claims, of the “precog” plot point of “Minority Report.”
“It can see, hear, feel, and smell and it will roam around autonomously 24/7,” said CEO William Santana Li, a former Ford Motor executive, in an interview with CNET.
It is my hope that robotic will make life easier, not harder for mankind. Robotics I think could make money obselete. That would happen by robot taking over work and if they are doing all the work, we wouldnt have to. Instead, man would be free to explore themselves, their passions, their lives to the fullest. There is an obvious conflic there as I doubt the elite would want that to happen and will use robotics for their own schemes. Imnot exactly sure how it would fee man but there would be a way I think. As for this little guy, pre-crime is another word for fascism. There is no such thing as pre-crime. You either commit a crime or you dont. Innocent or not. Thats how it works. -Mort
