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Security Robot Rolls Over Child in Mall
On July 7, 2016, a Knightscope K5 autonomous security robot collided with a 16-month old boy while patrolling the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA.
- Date it happened
- 2016-07-12
- Organisation involved
- Stanford Shopping Center
- Product, system or model
- Knightscope K5 security robot with ~ 30 sensors, including a multitude of laser ranging devices and sonar sensors allowing it to sense the surrounding environment from less than an inch away to over 3
Where this came from
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Attribution
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