The mayor of NYEric Adams, and the City Police Department (NYPD) presented various robots who will help agents keep the Big Apple safe, including Digidog, a robot police dog which was withdrawn by the previous mayor due to criticism.
“Today, we are announcing three new police technologies in New York City: the autonomous security robot K5the robot Digital and the accessory StarChase GPS“, he announced in a Press conference Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell held in Times Square.
The city has purchased two Digital with various accessories -as a gas detector– for $750,000 and will rent the other two technologies for a pilot test that will begin this summer for $1,750 a month.
“I look for the best for the city. And the three (tools) that we are launching today are just the beginning,” the mayor and former police officer, who declared himself a great fan of technology, told the media.
He robot K5 is equipped with various cameras, sensors e intelligence artificialwhich allows you to provide real-time information to agents.
This technology has been used in various areas of the US and has helped, among other things, with shootings in shopping malls.
According to the NYPD, after six months of testing, the robot will patrol both Times Square and its subway stations.
The system StarChase works by placing a suction cup GPS -either manually or by launching it from a vehicle- to a fleeing vehicle and the tool allows the vehicle to be tracked in real time.
This technology will allow NYPD officers to remotely follow a car, thus avoiding a vehicle chase through the streets of New York.
For their part, the Digidogs -as they already passed the pilot test at the time- will be incorporated directly into the NYPD.
This yellow robot made by Boston Dynamics was so criticized by various civil rights advocates that the previous administration – headed by Bill de Blasio – stopped using it and it was turned over to the fire department.
Adams said that if a person has a loved one who is kidnapped, they will appreciate that this machine, which walks on all fours and has a claw with a camera where a dog’s head would normally be, is among the patrol.
NYPD noted that none of these tools have recognition facial.
With information from EFE
