Finally, a real R2D2

[dualmeister]

R2D2 in real life

Knightscope

The Birth of a New Hometown Hero
Imagine a friend that can see, hear, feel and smell that would tirelessly watch over your neighborhood, keep your loved ones safe and put a smile on anyone walking by your business. Imagine if we could utilize technology to make our communities stronger and safer…..together.

Knightscope is developing technology that will predict and prevent crime with an innovative combination of hardware, software and social engagement.

The Knightscope K5 Autonomous Data Machine utilizes a combination of autonomous robots and predictive analytics to provide a commanding but friendly physical presence while gathering important real-time on-site data with numerous sensors.

Data collected through these sensors is processed through our predictive analytics engine, combined with existing business, government and crowdsourced social data sets, and subsequently assigned an alert level that determines when the community and the authorities should be notified of a concern.

If an alert is pushed, the K5 machine will turn on all of its sensors to allow the entire community to review everything and also contribute important real-time information. Our approach alleviates any privacy concerns, engages the community on a social level to effectively crowdsource security, and provides an important feedback loop to the prediction engine.

[video=youtube_share;83-bpqogngg]http://youtu.be/83-bpqogngg[/video]

 

[grok]

Yeah but can it do the R2D2 whistle?

 

[dualmeister]

For that it requires firmware upgrade opt_whistle.bin

 

[Jab]

This is not the droid I'm looking for