{"id":172644,"date":"2023-09-23T14:30:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/an-nypd-security-robot-will-be-patrolling-the-times-square-subway-station"},"modified":"2023-09-23T14:30:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:30:42","slug":"an-nypd-security-robot-will-be-patrolling-the-times-square-subway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/an-nypd-security-robot-will-be-patrolling-the-times-square-subway-station","title":{"rendered":"An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New York Police Department (NYPD) is implementing a new security measure at the Times Square subway station. It\u2019s deploying a security robot to patrol the premises, which authorities say is meant to \u201ckeep you safe.\u201d We\u2019re not talking about a RoboCop-like machine or any human-like biped robot<\/a> \u2014 the K5, which was made by California-based company Knightscope, looks like a massive version of R2-D2. Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of privacy rights group Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, has a less flattering description for it, though, and told The New York Times<\/em><\/a> <\/em>that it\u2019s like a \u201ctrash can on wheels.\u201d<\/p>\n

K5 weighs 420 pounds and is equipped with four cameras that can record video but not audio. As you can guess from the image above, the machine also doesn\u2019t come with arms \u2014 it didn\u2019t quite ignore Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 attempt at making a heart. The robot will patrol the station<\/a> from midnight until 6 AM throughout its trial run that\u2019s running over the next two months. But K5 won\u2019t be doing full patrols for a while, since it\u2019s spending its first two weeks mapping out the station and roaming only the main areas and not the platforms.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not quite clear if NYPD\u2019s machine will be livestreaming its camera footage, and if law enforcement will be keeping an eye on what it captures. Adams said during the event introducing the robot that it will \u201crecord video that can be reviewed in case of an emergency or a crime.\u201d It apparently won\u2019t be using facial recognition, though Cahn is concerned that the technology could eventually be incorporated into the machine. Obviously, K5 doesn\u2019t have the capability to respond to actual emergencies in the station and can\u2019t physically or verbally apprehend suspects. The only real-time help it can provide people is to connect them to a live person to report an incident or to ask questions, provided they\u2019re able to press a button on the robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Police Department (NYPD) is implementing a new security measure at the Times Square subway station. It\u2019s deploying a security robot to patrol the premises, which authorities say is meant to \u201ckeep you safe.\u201d We\u2019re not talking about a RoboCop-like machine or any human-like biped robot \u2014 the K5, which was made by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,1965,6,1492,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai","category-security","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172644","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}