Robotic prison wardens to patrol South Korean prison
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A jail in the eastern city of Pohang plans to run a month-long trial with three of the automatons in March.
The machines will monitor inmates for abnormal behaviour. Researchers say they will help reduce the workload for other guards.
South Korea aims to be a world leaders in robotics. Business leaders believe the field has the potential to become a major export industry.
The three 5ft-high (1.5m) robots involved in the prison trial have been developed by the Asian Forum for Corrections, a South Korean group of researchers who specialise in criminality and prison policies.
It said the robots move on four wheels and are equipped with cameras and other sensors that allow them to detect risky behaviour such as violence and suicide.
Robots everywhere
Success stories reported by the Korean media include Samsung Techwin's sale of a robotic surveillance system to Algeria and shipments of the humanoid Hubo robot to six universities in the US.
The South Korean defence company DoDAAM is also developing robotic gun turrets for export which can be programmed to open fire automatically.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15893772
The machines will monitor inmates for abnormal behaviour. Researchers say they will help reduce the workload for other guards.
South Korea aims to be a world leaders in robotics. Business leaders believe the field has the potential to become a major export industry.
The three 5ft-high (1.5m) robots involved in the prison trial have been developed by the Asian Forum for Corrections, a South Korean group of researchers who specialise in criminality and prison policies.
It said the robots move on four wheels and are equipped with cameras and other sensors that allow them to detect risky behaviour such as violence and suicide.
Robots everywhere
Success stories reported by the Korean media include Samsung Techwin's sale of a robotic surveillance system to Algeria and shipments of the humanoid Hubo robot to six universities in the US.
The South Korean defence company DoDAAM is also developing robotic gun turrets for export which can be programmed to open fire automatically.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15893772
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ampersand
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This one (if this is the example) looks as benign as Wall-E.
I expect in development and deployment however, the tough ones are going to function a lot more like "Hunter-killers" from the Terminator films.
That's where the money is. - 6 months ago
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