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Robot Cop

10.01.2001

Less than half a century has passed since R. Daniel Olivo was born under the pen of Isaac Asimov - a robot police officer, a participant in complex investigations, who more than once saved the lives of his human colleagues in alterations - and now an armed security robot has been created.

The robot, named Roboguard, appeared at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology in Bangkok and is a non-moving combination of a computer, a video camera and a gun mounted on a mechanical arm. The gun is still for children, pneumatic. The pistol is equipped with a laser sight that casts a red light spot on the target.

Roboguard can aim and shoot on its own initiative, noticing the movements of a person intruding into a protected area through infrared sensors. But the owner of the electronic security guard can control the shooting himself via the Internet, being anywhere in the world. In order for the robot to pull the trigger, you must enter a password.

The inventors want to offer their creation to the Thai army and private companies. But critics point out that the infrared guidance system is subject to interference (for example, if such a powerful source of infrared rays as the Sun looks out from behind the clouds), that controlling the security robot over the Internet will be inconvenient and too inertial, and most importantly, that you cannot trust the robot to decide about opening fire.

In this case, it is not clear why a shooting robot is better than an ordinary unarmed burglar alarm?

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