This article is 2 years old, I live here and I haven’t seen them yet. They’ll have to be accompanied by human officers anyway, cause NYers will absolutely destroy these things if they catch them alone
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People have a moral duty to destroy these anti-human robopigs
The K5 is pitched as an "Autonomous Security Robot" and was unveiled in 2014. K5 units have made the news for various incidents like driving into a pond or running over children.
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I hope someone zaps one and reprograms it with Alan Tudyk’s voice.
Michael Reeves had the right idea turning these into beer pissbots.
I foresee a new market popping up of parts stolen off of kidnapped and parted out robots form the NYPD.
I can't wait for somebody to slap an inflatable tube man on one.
"You have been observed violating the law. Please stand still to ensure a painless termination. Have a nice death."
It's like RoboCop, except the robots are villains helping human villains villain more comprehensively.
Ummm.... That's exactly the plot of RoboCop....
Oops lol, hadn't seen it since I was a kid over 30 years ago so I guess I'm more than a little fuzzy on the details, broad strokes, and the everything else of it 😂
The least realistic part of Robocop is that the cops were still trying to be good people.
In your defense, it's a coke-fueled nightmare with so many story points that it can easily be confused for 3 separate movies.
In offense to me, I think the remake has a better foundation and better acting and only suffers from trying to appease a wider audience.
Well, can't wait for videos of hooded people beating them up at night. I see that happening.
Hoods and face paint as well as face disfigurement are now illegal.
There go the Baseball Fury's
The Lizzies would kick that thing's ass.
You must now carefully carry your bicycle to prevent face disfigurement from a fall. Door slammers will face steep fines. Acids are now illegal, you must crank your vehicle to start it up.
No admission to the talkies without an onion on your belt
In a past job, I got a chance to deal with one of those Boston Dynamics robot dogs in action. Was not impressed.
Given NYC, would not be surprised if they're tagged, sensors are torched, or they're covered in bodily fluids. Or they end up at the bottom of the Hudson river shortly after deployment.
Come to think of it... most likely scenario: scrapped and sold for parts.
If they ever have these in Manchester it’d end up with hooded scallies riding hacked ones around and they’d get dumped in a canal. The Street finds its own use for things.
They will have to be very well designed and able to withstand powertools. Once people figured out how to remove batteries from rental ebikes/scooters it quickly becomes a thing.
May I ask what didn't impress you? From what I saw online it's pretty much just walking robot you can putt sensor/robotic hand/ and such things on it. And seems like for that it is great but I'd assume the price tag for something that can't do that much is steep. Just curious what real use they have and what they are bad at.
It's been a while, but for the price, it had an under-powered processor and anything other than just walking around had to be custom programmed. It got used for a few trade shows, where people watched it walk around, sit down, etc. Robotic grappling arm? There were more stable, wheeled platforms where you could actually place items and autonomously have it delivered.
Main use-cases were as an overpriced security guard, or a webcam with legs, but the operations costs were pretty high. It couldn't really get around hilly, dirt or muddy terrain, so you had to stick to paved routes. There were attachment peripherals, but for every single use-case, there were better, cheaper, more flexible equivalent solutions.
The most impressive thing was the coordinated movement of the legs, pretty solid build, and the sound of the servos. But that meant you couldn't use it for stealth scenarios. Oh yeah, it looked pretty menacing and scared children.
We figured if it was ever put out into real service, it would get jacked by a few yokels with a pickup truck, or smashed up by highschoolers on a dare. Eventually the novelty wore off, and it got retired to a demo area for visiting customers.
goddamn these are gonna be fun to vandalize.
"you have five seconds to comply..."
Don’t point it at me, point it at ED 209.
And just to show I'm serious, you have zero seconds to comply.
I hope they are destroyed by citizens.
Wasn't that the plot of RoboCop?
It's been 20 or 30 years since I last saw it, but wasn't the only robot the Good Guy? Because these robots are just tools for the villains of real life to better oppress people..
The cyborg, RoboCop was a good guy. But even he had programming blocking him from opposing or harming the crooks that headed the corporation that built his robotic body and they were not good guys at all. They also had the fully robotic walking tanks Ed 209, that did their bidding fully (when not experiencing bugs).
You have ten seconds to comply! Rawr!
Yeah that was fixed the very next firmware update.
No, the cyborg (personhood, empathy) is the hero, the hulking robots are unthinking beasts that follow the commands of their human masters...
Oh it's Knightscope. Dont worry too much, those robots are pretty shitty. https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/7/17/15986042/dc-security-robot-k5-falls-into-water
Doest matter if they're shitty, they're both doing surveillance on the public, and normalizing having robots roaming around 'policing' you.
Literally tomorrow they could just start detecting your skin tone and start alerting ICE that you need to be deported. Ya think when ICE shows up they're gonna listen to you as you state your case? Nah, the bot told us you're an immigrant about to commit a crime.
Yes I'm sure they haven't iterated on it in the past 6-8 years
Listen all y'all!
This is the dumbest shit I ever heard of
So, more ED-209 than RoboCop.
That’s not dystopian at all! …