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Re: Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/10/16 3:11 PM, Double-A wrote:
>> On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 8:12:21 AM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote:
>>> Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You
>>>> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601635/robots-are-invading-malls-and-sidewalks-near-you/
>>>
>>>
>>>> At the upscale Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California,
>>>> people are taking selfies with a roving robot that looks like a cross
>>>> between Wall-E’s girlfriend and R2D2. It’s actually a K5 robot
>>>> security guard—a 300-pound, sensor-filled droid made by a startup
>>>> called Knightscope that patrols the area and detects suspicious
>>>> behavior.
>>>>
>>>> K5 is part of a small but growing number of human-scale mobile robots
>>>> that are finding employment outside the confines of industrial
>>>> settings like factories. They’re invading consumer spaces including
>>>> retail stores, hotels, and sidewalks in a quest to deliver services
>>>> alongside human staff members for a fraction of the price of
>>>> employing people to do a variety of typically unexciting tasks. The
>>>> machines come with navigation capabilities and safety features to
>>>> allow them to perform simple jobs autonomously without putting people
>>>> at risk.
>>>
>>>
>>>    Perhaps some guard droids will be armed with weapons.  :-o
>>>
>>
>>
>> And foolish laws like the $15/hour minimum wage will accelerate the march of the droids!
>>
>> Double-A
>>
> 
>   WOW think of the jobs created to make droids. Yippee!
 
Yeah, in China.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 10:12 -0500
  Re: Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-06-08 11:20 -0500
  Re: Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-06-10 13:11 -0700
    Re: Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 16:13 -0500
      Re: Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-10 21:28 +0000
        Re: Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You xxein1@att.net - 2016-06-10 16:51 -0700
      Re: Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-06-11 12:19 -0700
        Re: Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 14:23 -0500
          Re: Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-06-11 12:57 -0700
  Re: Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You Rock Brentwood <federation2005@netzero.com> - 2016-06-11 12:25 -0700

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