{"id":150093,"date":"2022-11-14T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/oakland-police-want-to-arm-robots-with-shotguns-because-we-live-in-a-dystopian-nightmare"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:24:39","slug":"oakland-police-want-to-arm-robots-with-shotguns-because-we-live-in-a-dystopian-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/oakland-police-want-to-arm-robots-with-shotguns-because-we-live-in-a-dystopian-nightmare","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Police Want to Arm Robots With Shotguns, Because We Live in a Dystopian Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oakland-police-want-to-arm-robots-with-shotguns-because-we-live-in-a-dystopian-nightmare2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police in Oakland are hoping to arm robots with potentially lethal shotgun-like attachments. Why? Because that\u2019s the reality we live in now.<\/p>\n<p>As<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/10\/17\/police-robot-gun-oakland\/\" class=\"\"><em> The Intercept<\/em> reports<\/a>, the Oakland police force made a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pica.army.mil\/pmccs\/PmCountermine\/EOD\/StandoffDisrupter.html\" class=\"\">percussion actuated nonelectric disruptor<\/a>,\u201d or PAN disruptor, a top-priority item on their wish list last year.<\/p>\n<p>In short, PAN is a shotgun-shaped accessory attachment for wheeled robots, which are <a href=\"https:\/\/asc.army.mil\/docs\/pubs\/alt\/2005\/1_JanFeb\/articles\/33_TARDEC_Helps_to_Keep_EOC_Soldiers_Safe_200501.pdf\" class=\"\">often deployed in war zones<\/a> and by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/analysis\/disruptor-and-drone-combine-to-take-on-ied-threats-from-the-air\/\" class=\"\">bomb squads<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Oakland are hoping to arm robots with potentially lethal shotgun-like attachments. Why? Because that\u2019s the reality we live in now. As The Intercept reports, the Oakland police force made a \u201cpercussion actuated nonelectric disruptor,\u201d or PAN disruptor, a top-priority item on their wish list last year. In short, PAN is a shotgun-shaped accessory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150093","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}