Take a deep breath as you take this news in. Ready? Fallout 4’s sentry bots are now real.
Thankfully, these bots aren’t going to explode twice on you when they get destroyed, since we’re still not living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and all that. Actually, they’re not fully autonomous yet either. Instead, the Knightscope K5 Security Robots serve to augment existing anti-crime measures.
Powered by the same technology that runs Google’s self-driving cars, K5 bots can be programmed to take neighborhood patrols around Silicon Valley, collecting real time and on-site data. A predictive analytics engine processes this information to figure out if it has found any crimes, and will then forward the relevant information to the authorities.
K5s are armed with 360 degree HD and low light IR cameras, microphones, and numerous sensors. Much like Fallout’s bots, they can talk to people they come across as well. The K5s aren’t likely to make people run in fear of their lives like sentry bots will, but seeing one may be enough to make would be criminals make a run for it.
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