The American company Knightscope is working on a robot that will be used for the monitoring of buildings and objects. According to the manufacturer, the so-called K5 Autonomous Data Machine among other things be deployed within businesses and schools.
The K5 robot can its monitoring tasks according to Knightscope run thanks to the presence of numerous sensors. So the robot can move its position via gps and lidar-mappingtechnologie. Built-in cameras have 360° visibility, which is also night vision is possible. Furthermore, sensors are present that certain substances can detect, and there are microphones in the K5 posted. The 136kg heavy robot is 1.5 meters high.
Knightscope says that the development of its K5 Autonomous Data Machine is far advanced in time, to be used for a variety of outputs, although there is still plenty tinkered with the software which has face detection as possible. The company calls not only for businesses as a future field of activity, but also schools; the developers could be the idea for the K5 came after the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In the U.S., the plans for the K5 robot with the necessary criticism. Across The street from The New York Times late Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center to know that the robot should be seen as the devilish twin brother of R2-D2′ because such robots an infringement on the privacy of Americans. Some scientists are worried that robots like the K5 in the long term a lot of jobs on the trip, partly because the manufacturer promises that the cost of 6.25 $ per hour for the ‘bewakingsbots’ lower than the legal minimum wage of $ 7.50 for a regular guard.