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Knightscope's Park Patrol Robot Ignored Bystander Pressing Emergency Button to Alert Police about Fight
A Knightscope K5 autonomous "police" robot patrolling Huntington Park, California failed to respond to an onlooker who attempted to activate its emergency alert button when a nearby fight broke out.
- Date it happened
- 2019-10-04
- Organisation involved
- Knightscope
- Product, system or model
- HP RoboCop, equipped with a camera, is programmed to follow a certain route telling visitors to keep the park clean and acting as a security monitor. It is advertised as "including a 360-degree high-d
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