- California police department subscribes to Knightscope K5 robot.
- K5 combines self-driving technology, robotics and artificial intelligence.
- K5 robot is a crime-fighting autonomous data machine.
- Knightscope design makes K5 “people-friendly.”
A recent recruit to California’s Huntington Park Police Department (“HPPD”) didn’t graduate from the Police Academy. Instead, the patrol officer is a product of Silicon Valley company Knightscope. The 400-pound security robot, dubbed “HP RoboCop,” joined the police force in June 2019 and has been patrolling the city of Huntington’s 23-acre Salt Lake Park ever since. Its presence has had a marked effect that may point the way to how policing is carried out in jurisdictions across the nation. After deployment “911” calls fell by 46 percent and citations issued fell by over 68 percent (https://ibn.fm/PKnPg).
While Alex Murphy, the original Robocop, was a fearsome figure, HP Robocop is quite the opposite. Its sleek appearance is deliberate. Not to be seen as intimidating or out of place has been the design aim. Just like the cops pounding the…
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