A large and suspicious security robot has been spotted patrolling the Seibu Shinjuku Station in Tokyo.
Although the robot looks as if it’s about to start sprouting legs and deploy its laser annihilation systems, it’s completely harmless and actually works to keep commuters safe from danger.
The Perseusbot is an autonomous robot developed by Seibu Railway, the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute and Japanese artificial intelligence companies Earth Eyes and Nihon Unisys.
Its main job is to scan its patrol route with cameras, analyze and compare images sent to it by other cameras spread around the area and to determine which humans are moving around aggressively and dangerously – it can also detect unattended packages.
Once Perseusbot discovers anything worth noting, it immediately contacts human security staff to handle the problem.
The bowling pin shaped robot finished its test run at the Seibu Shinjuku Station on the 30th of November, but its creator plans to do a lot more field testing to further determine its full capabilities.
>>determine which humans are moving around aggressively and dangerously
>>Shinjuku Station
ROFL, how long did the bot last before it overheated and shutdown? 2? 3 minutes?
It’s Seibu Shinjuku Station, not the JR one.
First suspect will be Donald Trump with his gentle style.
You could never use something like this in the us/uk someone would knock it over/vandalize it.
Haha, have you seen the Police CCTV images they release to the press when they’re appealing for help identifying a suspect? They’re so fucking blurry you couldn’t even tell who it is.
You’re likely to be captured on dozens, hundreds of Cameras walking through a city but the quality will always be s♥♥t.
It’s embarrassing when you see in other countries they release often crystal clear CCTV images of criminals.
Oh and I was talking about the UK, apologies if I wasn’t clear.
When the CCTV image is crystal clear it’s a sign it probably was forged.
But on same note it’s linked to the rest of the camera’s so it probably can have the cameras all point to it’s location if attacked.. Smile your on candid cameras!
And get recorded up close and personal on it’s camera probably.
They proabbaly would even end up getting stolen as jamming wifi and cellular signals is actually pretty easy.
Jamming a cctv camera is even easier just use an array of ir leds to blind it.
It could also clean the floor…
Might as well so it actually does something useful.
I thought it was gonna be some silly gimmick, but this actually sounds useful…
At least give it a threatening design, it looks like something out of an 80’s comedy.
And yet it whoops your ass if you can’t resist beeing a dick in public. Justice Robo-san is the future