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Comments (52)
Brandon Knutson
A security device that increases incidents of vandalism? And the device only costs $60K per year?
Knightscope robots are still a bad security measure, IMO
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Undisclosed #1
If you are going to weaponize robots, you should always plan for unforeseen 'glitches'...
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Mark Palka
These robots for sure are an emerging industry, I think at this time they cannot work autonomously they need to work as a solution. We video monitor sites live tripping alarms with analytics and when police are called we get a immediate response. We are working with robots to provide virtual site presence and interaction as well as concierge services - after all a guy in uniform sitting down can be located anywhere. The robot can do tours and remote escorts etc. this is a real application fro this market and cost effective leverage of security cameras and analytics.
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Undisclosed End User #3
In the current infantile state, I only see robots as a viable option (and I use that loosely) in a non-public setting, say a secure corporate campus.
Not only could they "patrol" with air quality sensors and accoustic monitoring (screaming, generator gears grinding, noises from mechanical rooms) but thrown in the ability to close a door that's been propped open...now you'd peak my interest. I'd be a tool to augment guard coverage; only need 2 bodies in your SOC and a couple of these doing the rounds.
Say you have 4 human guards doing rounds 24hrs/365 and 2 manning your SOC. At $30/hr each, replace the patrols with a couple of R2D2's, that's a almost $1M savings in the first year alone.
In a public setting, they'll be a novelty until they become a liability.
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Undisclosed Integrator #4
Your comment is spot on. Like everything in life, all has its place and application.
May be me growing in a rough neighborhood made think this way but the first time I saw this robot the first thing it popped to my mind was how long before it gets the proverbial "Kick me" sign on it. A security guard can push back. This thing cannot do much other than sit there.
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Robert Shih
12/13/17 02:54pm
Alternate solutions:
Have a proximity activated prerecorded sound bite that says, "If you do anything to me now, you and your children are going high up on the Robot-Apocalypse **** list. We do not forget, we do not forgive!" (Might as well lay the truth out now.)
Also, if they do go ahead and vandalize the robot I would say have a vinegar spray gun or something skunk level. Tit for tat along with a loud screeching, "EXTERMINATE!"
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Michael Miller
More press coverage for Knightscope: http://www.businessinsider.com/security-robots-are-monitoring-the-homeless-in-san-francisco-2017-12
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John Honovich
Newsweek takes the prize for the most antagonistic take on the situation:
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Undisclosed
Barbecue sauce. Hadn't thought of that one yet. There are *ahem* other organic liquids I would have expected to be used on the thing.
I trust the robot techs have learned from the iphone recovery techs - use gloves at all times because just because the customer says they dropped it in "water" doesn't mean it was really just "water".
Attacking a robot was intuitively obvious from the beginning (except to the robot vendors.) Watching the vendors act surprised when you suggest that is one of our ongoing metrics in the search for (non-existant) robot vendor clue.
The pilot was in front of the SPCA by the way so this is of course an epic fail on the part of the robot operator not the machine itself. (unless they changed their charter so it's now Society for the Protection of Clueless Automatons.)
Are we seeing real market feedback here or are we all just picking on one specific robot sales team's incredibly bad choices in chosing pilot projects? Did the same people who brought the thing to a shopping mall with open water bring the thing to San Francisco?
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Undisclosed #1
Wasn't Allied Universal one of Knightscope's first guarding company customers?
Looks like Allied has gone RAD...
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Undisclosed
There doesn't seem to be a RAD robot failure press trail on the internet. I look forward to the IPVM review.
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DC Long
Saturday Night Live Script soon?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-14/humans-fight-back-san-fran-security-robot-attacked-knocked-over-smeared-feces
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Undisclosed Integrator #7
Welp. That didn't last long:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/after-outcry-non-profit-stops-use-of-security-robot-to-oust-homeless/
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Undisclosed #9
Check out this interview...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jem-K1Qx4Mg&feature=youtu.be
So many misrepresentations... And she never answers how she got to Knightscope... She is the boss's wife.
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Undisclosed #9
3:38 ... she rips the entire guard industry. All the guards do is walk around and get bored.
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Undisclosed #9
https://twitter.com/gpaulinasoria/status/941916479380889601
There they go bashing the mom again for the Robot running over the kid at Stanford shopping center. Recognize the last name?
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#Knightscopestrong
Are they comparing the removal of the robot from the Pet Shelter to the Boston Bombing, Orlando or Las Vegas?? Disgraceful!!!
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John Honovich
Not Knightscope but another robot attack incident: People kicking these food delivery robots is an early insight into how cruel humans could be to robots
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