{"id":124348,"date":"2021-06-27T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/security-robots-expand-across-u-s-with-few-tangible-results"},"modified":"2021-06-27T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:23:20","slug":"security-robots-expand-across-u-s-with-few-tangible-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/security-robots-expand-across-u-s-with-few-tangible-results","title":{"rendered":"Security robots expand across U.S., with few tangible results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/security-robots-expand-across-u-s-with-few-tangible-results.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be difficult to introduce a single thing and it causes crime to go down,\u201d one expert said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cAre we seeing dramatic changes since we deployed the robot in January?\u201d Lerner, the Westland spokesperson said. \u201cNo. But I do believe it is a great tool to keep a community as large as this, to keep it safer, to keep it controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Knightscope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knightscope.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">maintains<\/a> on its website that the robots \u201cpredict and prevent crime,\u201d without much evidence that they do so. Experts say this is a bold claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be difficult to introduce a single thing and it causes crime to go down,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.uw.edu\/directory\/faculty\/calo-ryan\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Calo<\/a>, a law professor at the University of Washington, comparing the Knightscope robots to a \u201croving scarecrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt would be difficult to introduce a single thing and it causes crime to go down,\u201d one expert said. \u201cAre we seeing dramatic changes since we deployed the robot in January?\u201d Lerner, the Westland spokesperson said. \u201cNo. But I do believe it is a great tool to keep a community as large as this, to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}