{"id":9282,"date":"2013-12-08T11:29:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9282"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:22:56","slug":"rise-of-the-robot-security-guards-r2d2-lookalike-k5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/rise-of-the-robot-security-guards-r2d2-lookalike-k5","title":{"rendered":"Rise Of The Robot Security Guards: R2D2 Lookalike K5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Cameron Scott\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/cscott\/\" rel=\"author\">Cameron Scott<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70689\" alt=\"K5-Blur-Kids_banner\" src=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\" data-cfsrc=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the tragic shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, last December, many called for stricter gun control. Others called for better mental health care. Some called for more guns in the hands of teachers and school security officers.<\/p>\n<p>Knightscope, a Silicon Valley startup, called for more robots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe founded Knightscope after what happened at Sandy Hook. You are never going to have an armed officer in every school,\u201d William Santana Li, co-founder and CEO, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/03\/science\/coming-soon-a-night-watchman-with-wheels.html?ref=science&amp;_r=1&amp;\">told<\/a> the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/12\/07\/rise-of-the-robot-security-guards-r2d2-lookalike-k5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Cameron Scott In the wake of the tragic shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, last December, many called for stricter gun control. Others called for better mental health care. Some called for more guns in the hands of teachers and school security officers. Knightscope, a Silicon Valley startup, called for more robots. \u201cWe founded Knightscope [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9282","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\/9282","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47377,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions\/47377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}