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CNET News - Is this a real RoboCop?

2013-12-04
so on top of the night scope k5 the first thing we have is the lidar and the lidar actually will give you a 3d map of the environment it will take a 270-degree image of the of the room around it or the space around it and allow it to actually create a three-dimensional map couple with that you have GPS you have D GPS which will actually allow it to locate itself we've got monitors on the wheels to tell how what distance is traveling and then we have ultrasonic sensors around it to tell anything else it might be in a closer proximity to it so now we move down to the first sensor layer and on the first sensor layer we have four cameras positioned on each side of the k5 the cameras will see 360 degrees we have nighttime vision capability and daytime vision capability and also thermal imaging as well any of the information that is immediately relevant so we need something to send an alert for example that data can be immediately transferred then you have data that's stored on it and then when we go to park the the unit to on its charging station we take those opportunities to load the data either to a local server or to the cloud on the side these are the inlets for the microphone so we're not recording people's voices or people's conversations we're recording ambient noise levels so we want to make sure that if something's going on and people are screaming we're able to detect that and say hey there's something going on in this particular area in the future we will also have weapons of mass destruction caping capability so we want to be able to detect radiation chemical biological weapons and also airborne pathogens so that's the sniffing portion of it so right now those features are not in this correct we right now we in the beta prototype we're offering optical character recognition we'll get to that in a moment the 360-degree video capability and the lidar mapping so the k5 also has optical character recognition optical character recognition will allow the robot to read license plates so if you have somebody in the area with a stolen car wanted fell in anything like that again we'll be able to send out an immediate alert to in to the appropriate authorities to act on that the nightscope k5 is also fully autonomous it it runs around on its own as we said before uses the lidar to map the area and then it'll it's on an electric battery the battery gets charged automatically and it can run up to 24 hours won't do that but it's capable of running 24 hours but it knows at certain intervals it's going to go and seek out a charging station but in future we're gonna be able to go up and down curbs off-road this particular one we can go on just about any surface grass concrete and the like small bumps ramps things like that this will run up to 18 miles per hour okay but I imagine in a shopping mall that's a cruising speed it's actually gonna be much lower in normal operations probably going to be somewhere between 1 and 3 miles per hour
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