"Meet the Crime-Fighting Robot That's Stirring Up Controversy" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Dec 2017 4:39 p.m. PST |
"Five-foot-tall, 400-pound robots are on a mission to take a bite out of crime. The path there, though, is fraught with ethical pitfalls…."
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 22 Dec 2017 6:33 p.m. PST |
Pretty weak article. So it's a rolling security camera… would it be different if it were a drone? Or one of the floodlight cams being advertised so heavily? |
| Ironwolf | 22 Dec 2017 9:28 p.m. PST |
Just add a tazer and start daring your friends to go mess with it. lol |
| Ironwolf | 22 Dec 2017 9:28 p.m. PST |
Just add a tazer and start daring your friends to go mess with it. lol |
ZULUPAUL  | 23 Dec 2017 4:01 a.m. PST |
Not exactly Robocop is it. |
| Waco Joe | 23 Dec 2017 9:29 a.m. PST |
Back during the Dallas police shooting the Dallas PD used a robot to deliver a package of C4 close enough to the shooter to eliminate him. link Affectionately nicknamed FU-D2 on message boards across the nation. |
 Parzival | 23 Dec 2017 10:00 a.m. PST |
@ WacoJoe
That reminds me of Heinlein's talking thirty second grenade in Starship Troopers: "I am a thirty second bomb. Twenty-nine.Twenty-eight. Twenty-seven…"  Seriously, such a thing might be effective; if a perp knows the device *will* kill him if he doesn't surrender, and knows that he can't possibly stop this, the odds of surrender probably go way up. If he still doesn't comply, well, you were gonna have to kill him any way. |
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