Poll of the Day > This ROBOT is being used to SHOO AWAY HOMELESS PEOPLE!! Does it intimidate you?.

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The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals say this Security Robot in San Francisco, dubbed K9 is being hired to to SHOO AWAY HOMELESS PEOPLE from outside smart office buildings!!

It will patrol the streets because of the growing amounts of crime related to homeless people on sidewalks...despite the fact that they are being warned by officials they will be fined $1000 a day if they continue to use it!

They hired this futuristic robot to work outside the officie as it was designed by Knightscope that weighs 400lbs and is 1.5m tall.

Jennifer Scarlett said "We weren't able to use the sidewalks at all when there's needles and tents and bikes so from a walking standpoint, i find the robot much easier to navigate than an encampment"

However in a week its clashed with locals as people put BBQ all over it or put a tarp over it so it can't see...

It's rented for as little as 7 dollars an hour, far less than the minimum wage of 14 an hour in California

It's a crime fighting robot that relies on cameras, lidar-thermal imaging to navigate

Laser scanning can detect changese in an environment while odour detectors sense other changes and monitor air pollution.

Does this robot intimidate you?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/12/13/11/4749841100000578-5174767-image-a-3_1513165768123.jpg
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How many have been destroyed?
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Inb4onefucksthathole

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Why not live inside the robot?
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Full Throttle posted...

It will patrol the streets because of the growing amounts of crime related to homeless people on sidewalks...despite the fact that they are being warned by officials they will be fined $1000 a day if they continue to use it!

You mean the same officials who refuse to address the problem of homeless people squatting outside buildings?
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my brother used to work for that company lol..

but seriously its sad. but I figured it would happen, jack up the minimum wage and some get replaced by robots. what makes it sadder though funny to a degree is its likely going to end up costing the company more as the homeless i'm betting will be much quicker to attack and destroy a robot than they would attack a human. especially since it would mean a bed to sleep in and 3 meals. just a lot of homeless aren't going to go as far as hurting someone to get that. city I grew up near though they where known for throwing small rocks at the police station windows or shitting on the front steps in their attempts to get arrested so they had a place to sleep.
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i don't understand what it does. does it just BEEP BOOP at you until you move? does it attack you? does it deploy stink bombs?
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Super_Thug44 posted...

i don't understand what it does. does it just BEEP BOOP at you until you move? does it attack you? does it deploy stink bombs?

at the very least i'm assuming a verbal warning, and if refused your picture taken and cops called.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

Super_Thug44 posted...

i don't understand what it does. does it just BEEP BOOP at you until you move? does it attack you? does it deploy stink bombs?

at the very least i'm assuming a verbal warning, and if refused your picture taken and cops called.

what a pointless robot. then what, the cops come and do what, arrest them? they get thrown in jail for a day then get sent back out in the streets to do it all over again.

who the hell made this shit
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Super_Thug44 posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

Super_Thug44 posted...

i don't understand what it does. does it just BEEP BOOP at you until you move? does it attack you? does it deploy stink bombs?

at the very least i'm assuming a verbal warning, and if refused your picture taken and cops called.

what a pointless robot. then what, the cops come and do what, arrest them? they get thrown in jail for a day then get sent back out in the streets to do it all over again.

who the hell made this shit

someone who didn't want to pay security officers but wanted security to deter homeless people from hanging around.

i've seen pictures of all sorts of measures just to deter homeless people. spiked concrete under overpasses. benches designed in such a way it would be extremely uncomfortable to try and sleep on. and a few others I'm forgetting at the moment.
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R2, shutdown all the garbage people in the office sector now!!

Didn't one of these things run over a 3 yr old in a mall?
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I don't know why but this topic reminded me of hitchbot

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/us/hitchhiking-robot-safe-in-several-countries-meets-its-end-in-philadelphia.html

Hitchbot vs security bot who wins?
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Soon it will learn to convert biomass to fuel then how to self-replicate, then we are doomed.
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Someone is gonna hump that thing

It even has a hole
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Full Throttle posted...

Does this robot intimidate you?

Not at all. I'd actually find it amusing.
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Reminds me of a Dalek.
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Dude, they totally called it K9? The Doctor is gonna be pissed!

Anyway, take tarp, cover yourself with tarp around corner from robot. Approach robot with tarp covering you. Completely destroy freaking robot. Resist the urge to poop on remains as it would leave DNA evidence. Possibly do so anyway and light it all on fire afterwards.

Problem solved.
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This is dystopia shit here

wolfy42 posted...

Dude, they totally called it K9? The Doctor is gonna be pissed!

Anyway, take tarp, cover yourself with tarp around corner from robot. Approach robot with tarp covering you. Completely destroy freaking robot. Resist the urge to poop on remains as it would leave DNA evidence. Possibly do so anyway and light it all on fire afterwards.

Problem solved.

if I remember they've already found one covered in a tarp. and another covered in BBQ sauce.
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feco91 posted...

Ugh. Fucking Special Editions.
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Zareth posted...

feco91 posted...

Ugh. Fucking Special Editions.

Agreed.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Soon it will learn to convert biomass to fuel then how to self-replicate, then we are doomed.

yeah i played that game too. it wasn't kidding around. capitalism really will destroy the planet and start it over
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What exactly is it supposed to do? It doesn't look like it could taser someone or wave a hanky.
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