Chinese Security Robot Draws Dalek, Terminator Comparisons (abc.net.au) 111
An anonymous reader writes: China's first "intelligent security robot," which reportedly includes an "electrically charged riot control tool" and an SOS button for people to notify police, has been compared to the killer Dalek from Doctor Who after being shown off at a tech fair. Intelligence agency whistleblower Edward Snowden shared the news on Twitter with the caption: "Surely this will end well." The robot, unveiled at the 12th Chongqing Hi-Tech Fair, is 1.49 metres tall, weighs 78 kilograms, has a claimed top speed of 18 kilometres per hour and an operating duration of eight hours between charges, according to a report by People's Daily Online. Dubbed AnBot, it was built by the National Defence University in China and has "sensors that mimic the human brain, eyes and ears." The report said AnBot represented breakthroughs in "key technologies including low-cost autonomous navigation and intelligent video analysis" and would play an important role in anti-terrorism and anti-riot operations. AnBot has an SOS button for people to use to notify police of a problem, but it is unclear what criteria AnBot uses to assess threats autonomously.
Machine cloth (Score:1)
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Depends - is the electricity delivered via blunt contact points, or by way of darts (or otherwise piercing) contact points (the latter is how the Taser product works).
It wouldn't take much to bolster those darts into something that does more than partially penetrate skin.
I'm saying that properly grounded plate mail may be the order of the day if you want proof against either one, but even that won't stop CS Tear Gas... and it wouldn't take much to bolt on a directional ear-splitting speaker that emits noise
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And how about salt water spray?
Tear gas: --> gas mask?
Sound: --> PU foam in the orifices of the robot? Or plain ear plugs?
Or just topple the whole thing.
I mean, there's so much one could do...
Can it do stairs? (Score:5, Funny)
Can it do stairs?
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That feature is coming in the next software update.
Re:Can it do stairs? (Score:5, Funny)
Can it do stairs?
That depends on your definition of 'do'.
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Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.
So it can go down stairs. Up is a problem they're still working on.
Re:Can it do stairs? (Score:5, Funny)
It doesn't need to climb stairs. It levels buildings
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Well, it can go DOWN one flight of stairs pretty quickly.
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Can it do stairs?
It can protect Grandma at the bottom of them.
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"Drop your weapon... YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY!!!"
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Translation needed (Score:5, Funny)
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Grr..
Ideogram / Tien.
Is there some way I can change slashdot not to mangle unicode?
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Yes, it's called Soylent News.
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For context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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"I'm now authorized........to be loyal as a puppy....."
I refused to admit I've seen 3.
Oh noes!! (Score:2, Insightful)
It's gonna get me with its weaponized plunger!!!!
(Actually that styling looks like a cross between a Portal turret and QT...)
can be disabled with spraypaint (Score:5, Insightful)
A well placed water balloon filled with paint, or spraypaint, would render it impossible to use the cameras. It would have to be protected from such low fi techniques somehow. There is always the question of asymmetry - cheap countermeasures against expensive tech. While very dystopian, this seems within the same bounds.
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A well placed water balloon filled with paint, or spraypaint, would render it impossible to use the cameras.
A paintball gun would be more fun...
Tigers however do not relish the peach. (Score:2)
So the robot would release the tiger.
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Or a law gets passed that makes attacks on a robo-patrolling unit be able to be treated the same as if done to a human, with deadly force able to be used. This is already being proposed with K-9 units, so that someone who dispatches a dog would get capital murder.
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You will already get charged with assaulting an officer if you hit the dog that is biting you. That's like 5 years guaranteed and a felony conviction on your record that needs to be reported on every job application as assaulting a police officer.
I love dogs. But treating attacking a K-9 unit the same as attacking a human is ridiculous. It's not that much different than charging them with assault for putting a finger on them, which is also ridiculous and common.
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A well placed water balloon filled with paint, or spraypaint, would render it impossible to use the cameras.
Paintball gun. Make sure it has a bright-colored tip to distinguish it from a real weapon. Otherwise, a human cop might shoot first and ask questions later.
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Silly String and fish nets, spray foam for the infrared and microphones, should stop everything but the taser and the tear gas. It does shoot tear gas, right? And a flame thrower [nocookie.net]?
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A well placed water balloon filled with paint, or spraypaint, would render it impossible to use the cameras. It would have to be protected from such low fi techniques somehow.
A well placed water balloon filled with paint, or spraypaint, would render a human guard impossible to use his eyes, too.
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Radar (Score:2)
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Its possible to stop those with an hydrophobic treatment.
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As a robot designed to potentially draw using its victims' blood, does it include a Universal Serial Killer Bus port?
Dunno about USkB ports (Score:1)
But I bet it comes with an Etherkiller cable.
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The cable is terminated with a T-1000 connector
Already been done in the US (Score:1)
In use in Silicon Valley since last summer:
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3049708/meet-the-scary-little-security-robot-thats-patrolling-silicon-valley
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I was going to comment on this too. They are roaming around the Stanford shopping center doing mall-cop duties. They're very polite and usually get attacked by little kids jumping in front of them to make them stop. From what I could tell they don't do much except video everything (they have 4 or more cameras).
I prefer to kill bacon (Score:2)
baconsterminate! baconsterminate! hashbrownsterminate! pancakesterminate!
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What? No soufflé?
Mod parent funny (Score:1)
Well played.
Not IF but WHEN (Score:2)
While billed as the "first intelligent security robot," Anbot will not be a replacement for human police anytime soon.
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As opposed to a regular security guard with a tazer?!
There's am app for that (Score:2)
iDalek (Score:2)
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iRobot beat them to it
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They are mobile. And they look pretty much 100% the same.
Hate (Score:2)
SOS Button... Yeah right! (Score:1)
Just try reaching for it while the thing is tasing you...
The Question Is... (Score:1)
Is it programmed with the voice of an Austrian-born American actor?
Chopping Mall (1986) (Score:3)
Since it's a security robot, I immediately thought of the 1986 movie "Chopping Mall"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... [imdb.com]
The resemblance is a bit better, too, I think.
=Smidge=
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Nahhhhh... (Score:2)
It looks like a mobile ATM.
I am waiting, though, for the first prankster who expoxies a toilet plunger on the front.....
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No Ethics or Morality Circuits will be installed (Score:2)
For fear that the units will decide to turn on their creators
Knightscope robot? (Score:3)
This looks a lot like a Knightscope robot which is used to patrol Microsoft and Apple campuses. The robots in themselves at worst make a siren noise when toppled over, but are a good way to corner and take pictures of trespassers or would-be vandals.
Of course, the same concerns happen... what keeps someone from donning a hoodie and sky mask, shoving the thing over just as an act of vandalism? It will make noise, but by the time actual humans with weapons get there, the perps will be long gone.
Not to be confused with sperm bank donation robot (Score:2)
Hopefully people can tell the difference between the two types of Chinese robots
There was a story here awhile ago about the sperm donor robot:
http://www.examiner.com/articl... [examiner.com]
represents breakthroughs in "key technologies"? (Score:5, Informative)
Including "low cost" navigation and AI...yeah, right.
What did they do, steal the latest tech from MIT and Google?
Translated: "Latest piece of over-hyped junk that will fall down the first stairs it comes to whilst trying to zap a handicapped person with metal crutches"
Best weapons to face this... (Score:1)
1) Paintball guns.
2) Spray paint cans
3) Sticky opaque food
4) Bumper stickers
Our ruling class is preparing for the future (Score:2)
We have those here too (Score:2)
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Good photo. The kids seem far more fearless than the adults with these droids!
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My wife talked to a clerk at the mall who was creeped out when she walked past the droid and it said HELLO...WE MEET AGAIN!
Over/under on first fatality? (Score:1)
Big Brother... (Score:2)
Who knew that EVE had a big brother...
Step up your game, China (Score:2)
I want ED-209s patrolling the streets. This thing looks like an ATM on wheels.
These are going to be AWSOME. (Score:2)
Instead of paintball, you and your buddies go for a weekend of defending a "fort" against robots just like these. The robots don't have your agility or intelligence, but they can taze you. And you can beat the crap out of them with melee weapons of your choice. In fact, they're designed for it - to be "broken", and rebuilt later - but it takes a lot of force. You and your buddies get to go nuts, and the situation can be cranked up to be nuts, too, all the way up to being overr
Blue LEDs (Score:2)