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Microsoft Turns to Robotic Security Guards to Watch for Trouble

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday November 25 2014, @03:04AM   
from the Exterrrrrrminate! dept.

AnonTechie writes:

The new robot sentries guarding Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus seem like something straight out of a futuristic sci-fi movie. According to ExtremeTech ( http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/194338-here-come-the-autonomous-robot-security-guards-what-could-possibly-go-wrong ), each of the K5 security guard robots from robotics company Knightscope ( http://knightscope.com ) stands 5 feet tall and weighs 300 pounds, so you probably don’t want to mess with one.

The K5 robots don’t come with any weapons onboard—thankfully—but they use a suite of alarms, sirens, and cameras to monitor and patrol the grounds of Microsoft’s campus. If one spots trouble, it’ll either sound an alarm or dispatch a human security guard to its location.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2851393/microsoft-turns-to-robotic-security-guards-to-watch-for-trouble.html

• 5 feet, 300 pounds (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 25 2014, @04:29PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 25 2014, @04:29PM (#119843)

  That's 1.5 meters and 136 kilograms for those of us who don't live in Backwardsville.

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