The real furor made news about how the robot guard, manufactured by Knightscope, having worked a week in a shopping center, fell into a fountain.
All droids are equipped with face recognition systems, infrared and ultrasonic sensors. But even this did not help poor Steve (abbreviated to the Security Technology Enhancement Vehicle), and only seven days after joining the service, he fell into an artificial pond.
The Washington Post reports that Steve crashed into the water, performing a detour. Since the manufacturers of the unfortunate robot positioned him as a "universal soldier" who never tires and does not lose interest in his work, the public rebelled. It turns out that it's too early to replace live guards with cars!
Knightscope tried to laugh it off, saying that the robot just wanted to cool down a little in the heat, as people do. But the ruffians of such an attempt to settle the conflict did not accept. Then the press service of the company called the incident "local", in which there is nothing criminal - and really not, because the robot did not harm anyone but himself - and promised in the shortest time to deliver a new serviceable security guard to the service.
But activists do not stop. They recalled how that year a robot hit a child, and the other never arrested a man who had drunk (although Knightscope claims that the latter bothered the car trying to test all its functions).
I wonder what will be the end of this battle? Who will win - cars or people?