Topic - Knightscope

Knightscope (the K5 beta prototype) is a fully autonomous robot, used to monitor crimes in schools, businesses, and neighborhoods. Its developers stated that development was inspired by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and to prevent future crimes. - Source: Wikipedia

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This Aug. 3, 2019, security camera photo provided by the Hayward Police Department shows a running suspect captured by the Knightscope K5 robot before it was damaged in Hayward, Calif. The 5-foot-tall robot, described by police as an &quot;R2D2&quot; figure, was guarding a parking garage when it was pushed over Aug. 3. Knightscope K5's photos show a young man in a black T-shirt and jeans running up moments before the attack. Police are asking for the public's help in finding him. (Hayward Police Department via AP)

Vandalized robot may solve mystery of its own attack

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This Aug. 3, 2019, security camera photo provided by the Hayward Police Department shows a running suspect captured by the Knightscope K5 robot before it was damaged in Hayward, Calif. The 5-foot-tall robot, described by police as an &quot;R2D2&quot; figure, was guarding a parking garage when it was pushed over Aug. 3. Knightscope K5's photos show a young man in a black T-shirt and jeans running up moments before the attack. Police are asking for the public's help in finding him. (Hayward Police Department via AP)

‘R2D2’ robot may help solve own attack

Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE MONDAY, SEPT. 4, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT - In this Monday, June 26, 2017, photo, Sophie Li, of Cupertino, Calif., offers to dance with a K5 robot made by Knightscope, Inc., at Westfield Valley Fair shopping center in San Jose, Calif. In the technology hotbed that stretches from San Francisco to San Jose, people can eat a pizza made largely by a robot, have hotel toiletries delivered by a robot, drink a frothy cappuccino made by a robot and shop at a mall with robot security. Now, one prominent San Francisco official is calling for a tax on companies that automate jobs once held by people. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

San Francisco official pushes robot tax to battle automation

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