The New York police got rid of the K5 responsible for patrolling the subway.
A mission that will not have been long. At the end of September, New York Mayor Eric Adams presented the K5, a police robot responsible for patrolling the subway. Five months later, the police discarded it, reports the New York Times. Equipped with cameras and a call for help system, it was supposed to operate alone. In fact, a police officer had to constantly accompany this patrol robot, which did not know how to go down the stairs.
A security guard also told the newspaper that he had never seen the wheeled machine making rounds, saying that it was plugged into a charging station and that people were taking selfies with it. The police officers who accompanied him “never let him do anything”he criticized.
End of test in the metro
The police put away the robot in a warehouse, because “K-5 had completed its experimental deployment in the New York subway”explained a spokesperson to New York Times. “The Adams administration is constantly exploring innovative technologies that can advance the work we have done to reduce criminality and keep New Yorkers safe, while maximizing the use of taxpayer dollars”for his part, declared the mayor through a spokesperson. “We are reviewing options for the next K5 deployment as part of the pilot project”he added.
With major crimes down and the mayor mandating budget cuts across city agencies, Albert Fox Cahn…said people should question spending on gadgets. “I described it as a trash can on wheels, but it looks like the wheels aren’t even working at this point,”https://t.co/mb66cAiSqR
— Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected]) (@FoxCahn) February 2, 2024
Some were delighted with the removal of the robot from the metro. “I said it was a wheelie bin. And it looks like the casters didn’t even work.”, wrote Albert Fox Cahn, director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a non-profit organization fighting electronic and technological surveillance, on X (formerly Twitter). He blames the fact that he spent so much money on this type of gadget – the robot was rented from its manufacturer for $9 an hour – while “the number of crimes is decreasing and [que] the mayor cut the budgets of many municipal positions ».
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2024-02-06 09:41:53
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