Neil the roving UHub photographer couldn't rove much past Mr. Roboto here yesterday. He dug up the background on Tobor:
Allied Universal, a leading facility services company and the largest security force in North America, has partnered with Boston Properties, to pilot a robot patrol program at the Prudential Center from May to August 2017. Technically called an Autonomous Data Machine, the Knightscope K5 model security robot will support the Prudential Center’s existing security team with a patrol route over the next three months. Prudential Center will be one of the first in Boston to introduce this sophisticated technology to enhance its current security program. The security robot is scheduled to start patrols within the Prudential Center retail area only on Tuesday, May 16.
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And my second thought on seeing that thing ...
By adamg
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 6:38pm
If you knock it down, does it bounce back up like a Weeble, or does it just lie there, helplessly emitting little pleas for help?
.
By anon²
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 7:09pm
[img]http://iruntheinternet.com/lulzdump/images/gifs/st...
.
I've fallen and i can't get
By anon
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 8:51pm
I've fallen and i can't get up!
You have a cleaner mind than I do....
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 7:30pm
... since my first thought was that it would be pretty easy to render it harmless -- or at least blind -- by covering it with a blanket.
Or with some sort of rolled-up opaque rubber sheath that you could pull out of your backpack, place on the top of its head, and unroll over it.
If you're standing near a group...
By anon
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 9:16am
... just put a sticker of your favorite band on one of the camera lenses. Rinse, repeat.
Just a second there...
By E
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 8:33pm
Actually, the largest security force in North America, is the United States Military.
not according to the Constitution
By anon
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 10:33am
.. though that's really more of a suggestion nowadays anyway.
Dalek?
By SRD
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 7:00pm
I thought that it was a giant Roomba
You think
By SamWack
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 10:05am
there's a difference ? You think they're really here to clean your home ?
They talk to the microwave
By anon
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 11:34am
And the microwave spies on you!
It's really him.....
By Joey
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 7:00pm
Seudo robocop rolls
You have ten seconds to
By Rikibeth
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 1:11am
You have ten seconds to comply?
By Elmer
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 7:52pm
[img]https://brightestyoungthings.com/wp-content/upload...
EXTERMINATE
By Lunchbox
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 8:04pm
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQLbwOGT8eM[/youtube]
Was it designed by Aperture Laboratories?
By BostonDog
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 9:25pm
If so, you might not want to let it see you.
[img]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/half-life/imag...
For science!
By anon
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 7:03am
But it performs opera and bakes a delicious and moist cake!
The cake is a lie.
By LM
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 7:16pm
The cake is a lie.
Definitely unsettling to me
By Neil
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 9:25pm
Maybe I watched to much sci-fi growing up but this thing is weird. It makes a theremin-like oscillating noise and I was waiting for a Dalek or Robbie Robot freak out.
Guess it'll take some getting used before I welcome my robot overlords at the mall.
Warning Will Robinson,
By El bobo
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 10:17pm
Warning Will Robinson, Warning.
It's actually
By roadman
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 10:00am
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG0ochx16Dg[/youtube]
Just remember one thing
By In The KNow
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 10:23pm
Klaatu Barrada Nick-toe.
It might be interested to talk to it in Klingon and see if it needs to get a human.
:-)
Company has an interesting social media presence.....
By Greg Cook
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 10:41pm
Interesting"Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone!" message from the company on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/knightscope/photos/a.121072181436396.1073741828.110177119192569/658548694355406/?type=3&theater
Action shot
By adamg
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 11:35pm
Data
By Gramps
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 8:17am
Wandering camera scanning and documenting all the faces it passes. Hopefully it is equipped with facial recognition and can alert authorities when it detects a felon before the crime is committed. Its all about that data. Gotta get that data.
it is
By anon
Fri, 05/19/2017 - 9:07am
And apparently can scan license plates as well.
Wow, on one hand that's cool,
By tofu
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 9:19am
Wow, on one hand that's cool, on the other - who's going to secure the robot? That looks like Velodyne VLP-16 on top, which alone retails for $8K.
Will support the existing security team existing of human beings
By whyaduck
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 10:01am
until they are let go due to automation of their jobs. Ya say it will never happen? Perhaps. But do not be so sure. It is disconcerting that there appears so little discussion, in general, about jobs disappearing because of automation potential of those jobs (i.e. driverless cars = potentially driverless trucks = no truck drivers). This is not good people.
idk
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/19/2017 - 11:09am
i would say having people perform literally pointless tasks is also not good for society
The little shit was in my way
By anon
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 10:14am
The little shit was in my way as I was trying to get into work. So many people in suits were oohing and aaahhing around it. It looks like a big vibrator. Hopefully I will see someone riding it sooner than later:)
Looks like an egg timer
By anon
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 10:52am
or as others have noted, a sex toy.
Suppository or pessary, to my
By C3PO
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 12:22pm
Suppository or pessary, to my eyes.
Not a replica phallus, IMHO.
Day job
By anon
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 12:30pm
This is the star of the Slutcracker.
Everyone needs a day job.
This will end badly
By D
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 12:59pm
...it
See something ...
By callmewhatyoulike
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 1:59pm
Say something
My first two thoughts were
By Rob
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 2:27pm
My first two thoughts were more along the lines of "Robin Williams has returned to us!" and "Promotional product dispenser from the L'eggs people."
Shame on all of you who
By Turtlegeuse
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 4:33pm
Shame on all of you who thought that Daleks are robots. Penalty: -1 nerd point.
Watch out
By poster
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 5:33pm
These robots have thirsted for blood before
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