An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station
An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station::The NYPD is deploying a robot with four cameras to patrol the Times Square subway station.
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Fat Dalek.
That is a fat Dalek.
*heavy breathing * EXTERMI...NATE
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I’ll be waiting for the news of when it gets destroyed by someone.
You mean, waiting for news when it gets isekai'd after someone pushes it in front of a train lol.
I'm waiting for it to end up beat up with baseball bats and dumped in a fountain
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Damn you
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Eggcelent. We eagerly await the completion of your grand project.
This one is even dumber, it just goes twenty seconds to comply and then become a $20 webcam (for $9/hour of taxpayer funds)
All the things the cops would want this bot to do are prohibited by rules or by the potential for public outrage; no facial recognition, no offensive capabilities, it's basically just a camera drone. But that will change when the rules change, or when people stop paying attention... if this thing can avoid being trashed for more then ten minutes after it's deployed.
Yeah I’m waiting for the article about it being pushed onto the tracks.
This was my first thought, too. This thing is gonna get hit by a train.
Hopefully within the first week.
Give it a minute little frogs, this is them initially turning the burner on under the pot. It's gonna get warmer.
I bet if you break this thing you will get charged with assault on an officer
So basically a $5 dollar can of spray paint and it's back to being worth it's weight in scrap
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Don't they know what we do robots here in America?
Didn’t the bot get beheaded?
Uh, how is it better than a security camera? Can it dispense pepper spray or chase dudes up stairs?
Well, you see this uses up a far larger chunk of the pointlessly huge police budget. I'm sure they'll also figure out a way for it to kill people soon.
So a security camera on wheels
Maybe this ridiculous thing will eventually replace some of the worst or most useless human cops... in twenty years, after a few billion tax dollars, just before their union neuters the project and renders it virtually useless. Think of the possibilities!
Patrolling in what way? Just being there is not a deterrent for a damn thing.
It has cameras and can follow people or raise alarm. It won't take long until someone shoves it onto train tracks, though.
The robot is gonna fall into a bad crowd soon after being deployed.
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Thank you for the reference, but also F you for suggesting Johnny Five is anything less than a miracle. A miracle with a laser that kills people.
Just a heads up, you replied to the bot, not the person who linked to that timeless classic.
Okay, so criminals are like "It saw us with our masks on. We have 10 minutes to get out of here...". Not a great deterrent.
Imagine paying a robot’s company $9 an hour for it to get HitchBot-Ed or mugged like a food delivery bot by anyone who owns a facemask
Ya, my immediate though is this things going to get annihilated somehow quick. Throw on a hat and big sunglasses, push it into the tracks, bye bye.
"Please scan this code to install the self-arrest app. If you are a first-offender, remember to also create an account."
I'm gonna put my dick in it
👀
I already did
Inb4 someone gets charged with assaulting an officer for drawing a dick on a robot
How long until it shoots the first black person? Place your bets now.
Are we even taking bets that don't say the word "month" in them?
It would be a real shame if something bad were to happen to it.
People are going to draw so many dicks on that boi.
So ACRAB?
Basically a protecton. Make sure to have metro tickets on you.
How long until it drowns itself?
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/7/17/15986042/dc-security-robot-k5-falls-into-water
Oh my God they look like a white Dalek!
Hmmm I wonder if anyone has ever hacked a police department by requesting all the bodycam footage and watching an authentication happen.
Why do I get phycho pass vibes from this thing?
I'm gonna push that offbrand baymax onto the tracks.
Can even security robots prevent anything?
Is it just fancy CCTV?
CCTV that can follow people, raise an alarm, and be shoved in front of an incoming train when it does. A cleaning robot would have been more useful.
you have 20 seconds to comply...
You know the drill.
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Where does the NYPD keep getting these expensive but apparently useless robots?
That thing sucks dick… I know it does…