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An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station::The NYPD is deploying a robot with four cameras to patrol the Times Square subway station.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fat Dalek.

That is a fat Dalek.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*heavy breathing * EXTERMI...NATE

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR PEPPER

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ll be waiting for the news of when it gets destroyed by someone.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You mean, waiting for news when it gets isekai'd after someone pushes it in front of a train lol.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I'm waiting for it to end up beat up with baseball bats and dumped in a fountain

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...

Damn you

Starts writing

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do these people never watch movies? We know how this ends, it goes -

Twenty seconds to comply!

Then everyone dies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This one is even dumber, it just goes twenty seconds to comply and then become a $20 webcam (for $9/hour of taxpayer funds)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All the things the cops would want this bot to do are prohibited by rules or by the potential for public outrage; no facial recognition, no offensive capabilities, it's basically just a camera drone. But that will change when the rules change, or when people stop paying attention... if this thing can avoid being trashed for more then ten minutes after it's deployed.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I’m waiting for the article about it being pushed onto the tracks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This was my first thought, too. This thing is gonna get hit by a train.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

prohibited by the potential for public outrage

Give it a minute little frogs, this is them initially turning the burner on under the pot. It's gonna get warmer.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I bet if you break this thing you will get charged with assault on an officer

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So basically a $5 dollar can of spray paint and it's back to being worth it's weight in scrap

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Didn’t the bot get beheaded?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Uh, how is it better than a security camera? Can it dispense pepper spray or chase dudes up stairs?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well, you see this uses up a far larger chunk of the pointlessly huge police budget. I'm sure they'll also figure out a way for it to kill people soon.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Patrolling in what way? Just being there is not a deterrent for a damn thing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It has cameras and can follow people or raise alarm. It won't take long until someone shoves it onto train tracks, though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the reference, but also F you for suggesting Johnny Five is anything less than a miracle. A miracle with a laser that kills people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just a heads up, you replied to the bot, not the person who linked to that timeless classic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Okay, so criminals are like "It saw us with our masks on. We have 10 minutes to get out of here...". Not a great deterrent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Imagine paying a robot’s company $9 an hour for it to get HitchBot-Ed or mugged like a food delivery bot by anyone who owns a facemask

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

"Please scan this code to install the self-arrest app. If you are a first-offender, remember to also create an account."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So a security camera on wheels

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe this ridiculous thing will eventually replace some of the worst or most useless human cops... in twenty years, after a few billion tax dollars, just before their union neuters the project and renders it virtually useless. Think of the possibilities!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Robocop needs to ease up on the Robodonuts.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Inb4 someone gets charged with assaulting an officer for drawing a dick on a robot

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm gonna put my dick in it

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long until it shoots the first black person? Place your bets now.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be a real shame if something bad were to happen to it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

People are going to draw so many dicks on that boi.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Basically a protecton. Make sure to have metro tickets on you.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hmmm I wonder if anyone has ever hacked a police department by requesting all the bodycam footage and watching an authentication happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Why do I get phycho pass vibes from this thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna push that offbrand baymax onto the tracks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can even security robots prevent anything?

Is it just fancy CCTV?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

CCTV that can follow people, raise an alarm, and be shoved in front of an incoming train when it does. A cleaning robot would have been more useful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Man it would be funny if someone just takes the thing and demands a Ransom...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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