Accelerating Future

Police Robot Tuesday, Jun 10 2008 

images and robotics Michael Anissimov 10:09 am

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8 Responses to “Police Robot”

1. Bob Mottram Says:
   June 10th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

   Wow! It appears that in 1924 someone predicted telerobotic policing, or “telepolice”. The age of telerobots is not here yet, but I expect that it will be within a couple of decades. All the technologies required are coming into place within a suitable price range, and at the same time there are mounting social pressures to remove police from street patrols to reduce associated legal/insurance costs. The increasing sophistication of CCTV, augmented with microphones and speakers also offer a possible incremental route towards remotely automated policing.

2. Nick Tarleton Says:
   June 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

   What happens if it’s knocked over?

3. Bobbie Dooley Says:
   June 10th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

   We could program it to hand out bars of soap to rioting hippies.

4. MCP2012 Says:
   June 10th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

   Brought to you by the Orwellian New World Order! Dissent? Petition the Government for Greivances? How quaint… how annoying…(after the constitution is “just a goddamn piece o’ paper” [Dubya]…how QUASHABLE. Send in the teleJACKBOOTS, the teleBROWNSHIRTS to silence those annoying…Christians…Jews…individualists…transhumanists… Orwell is puking in his grave…

5. Derek C. F. Pegritz Says:
   June 10th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

   The Union-Buster 5000? Personally, I like the tear-gas-dispensing wang and the spinning Turbo-Fisticuffs. Now coming to an Anarchist rally or labor-strike near you!

6. James F McEnanly Says:
   June 10th, 2008 at 8:17 pm

   It looks like it would have the same weakness as the walking tanks that the Empire used in the Star wars movies, namely that it’s legs could be tied and the automaton knocked over.

7. Ike Says:
   June 10th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

   Is it me or does the poor rioter that got knocked down look like he’s about to be crushed like a rebel pilot in the Empire Strikes Back?

8. Chris Williamson Says:
   June 11th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

   Notice how the first use listed is: ‘controlling mobs’.

   Everyone interested in power knows…Those who control the machines, controls the people…just ask the Bush Regime.

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