Microsoft Hires Robot Security Guards

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Those Security Robots are just an Extension of Cortana.

For those having issues with the video (my internet just slowed down for some reason)

Microsoft Hires Dalek-style Robocops to Guard Silicon Valley HQ
Microsoft Hires Dalek-style Robocops to Guard Silicon Valley HQ



Computing giant Microsoft is one of the Silicon Valley companies that has hired robot security guards to protect and serve the streets around northern California's technology hub.

The Knightscope K5 robot security guards are fitted with lasers, GPS and heat-detecting technology, and can predict where criminals will strike next and the likelihood of future crimes.

The 5ft tall robots are designed to operate without human control and are equipped with surveillance cameras and sensors, a thermal imaging system, scanners that can read 300 car registration plates a minute, and odour detectors. It patrols the streets using lasers to gauge distance and a GPS system.

The robots analyse information from government, businesses and social media sources to predict the likelihood of a crime being committed in a given area, and decide whether the alert authorities it if comes across anything suspicious.

Four of the robot security guards have been deployed to guard Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus, in the system's first real mission.

It appears to be going well, although the robots have come unstuck in the face of a seemingly innocent adversary: steps.

Rachel Metz, a reporter for MIT Technology Review, said: "I noticed that a K5 in the distance had somehow toppled over the edge of the sidewalk onto the parking-lot asphalt several inches below. A couple of Knightscope folks were needed to pull it upright."

Well, if Doctor Who's mortal enemies can't handle stairs, what chance to these youngsters have?



Um yeah, I looked at their design and they are top heavy with small wheels and ground clearance.... someone didn't think that part through.

Might be better off with ED-209
 
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Actually, it looks like those containers that pantyhose came in (not sure if they still do nowadays). LOL!
 
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Microsoft Hires Robot Security Guards
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If they're anything like most Microsoft software, they'll work fine at first, carrying out all the tasks that you need them to do, but then when it gets to the really important bit, the most important task they need to perform, they'll suddenly, without warning, crash, leaving you to have to restart them and having them do it all over again.
 
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Blackleaf said:
If they're anything like most Microsoft software, they'll work fine at first, carrying out all the tasks that you need them to do, but then when it gets to the really important bit, the most important task they need to perform, they'll suddenly, without warning, crash, leaving you to have to restart them and having them do it all over again.
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Odd, that was alway my experience with Macs.

The last time I can even remember my Windows crashing was about 6-7 years ago through Windows XP.
 
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Odd, that was alway my experience with Macs.

The last time I can even remember my Windows crashing was about 6-7 years ago through Windows XP.
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Windows is the worst. It crashes more times than a woman trying to do a three point turn.
 
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