{"id":70994,"date":"2017-07-18T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/suicidal-security-robot-drowned-itself-at-washington-office"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:01:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:01:01","slug":"suicidal-security-robot-drowned-itself-at-washington-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/suicidal-security-robot-drowned-itself-at-washington-office","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Suicidal\u2019 security robot \u2018drowned itself\u2019 at Washington office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/suicidal-security-robot-drowned-itself-at-washington-office.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 18 (UPI) \u2014 Officials at a Washington, D.C., office building patrolled by a security robot they are investigating after workers reported the robot \u201cdrowned itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MRP Realty <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MRPRealty\/posts\/1424088847682272\" target=\"_blank\">announced last week<\/a> there was a \u201cnew sheriff in town,\u201d namely a K5 security robot developed by Silicon Valley startup Knightscope, but Bilal Farooqui, a worker at the office complex, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bilalfarooqui\/status\/887025375754166272\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted a photo<\/a> Monday revealing the mechanical guard had met with a watery end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself,\u201d Farooqui wrote alongside an image of the robot horizontal inside a fountain. \u201cWe were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2017\/07\/18\/Suicidal-security-robot-drowned-itself-at-Washington-office\/9241500392359\/\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2017\/07\/18\/Suicidal-security-ro...500392359\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 18 (UPI) \u2014 Officials at a Washington, D.C., office building patrolled by a security robot they are investigating after workers reported the robot \u201cdrowned itself.\u201d MRP Realty announced last week there was a \u201cnew sheriff in town,\u201d namely a K5 security robot developed by Silicon Valley startup Knightscope, but Bilal Farooqui, a worker at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70994","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=70994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71140,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70994\/revisions\/71140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}