Meet K5, a night watchman on wheels

Knightscope's websites states the data collected from the K5 sensors "is processed through our predictive analytics engine, combined with existing business, government and crowdsourced social data sets, and subsequently assigned an alert level that determines when the community and the authorities should be notified of a concern." No Tom Cruise necessary.While the K5 might roll over the toes of human night watchmen by supposedly being available at a minimum wage rate,Q1 should be a revelatory three months.Leading mobile point-of-sale device rock bolt provider Infinite Peripherals. the question of privacy is also a concern as its "pervasive surveillance" in the public space could encroach on privacy rights.Currently, no date has been set for when or if the K5 will roll into town to protect our streets and hallways but the real question is: what's stopping criminals from simply pushing it over? 

The night watchman of the future is 5-feet tall, weighs 300 pounds and looks a lot like R2-D2 - without the whimsy. And will work for $6.25 an hour.A company in California has developed a mobile robot, known as the K5 Autonomous Data Machine, as a safety and security tool for corporations, as well as for schools and neighborhoods."We founded Knightscope after what happened at Sandy Hook," said William Santana Li, a co-founder of that technology company, now based in Sunnyvale, California. "You are never going to have an armed officer in every school." But what is for some a technology-laden route to safer communities and schools is to others an entry point to a post-Orwellian, post-privacy world. 

"This is like R2-D2's evil twin," said Marc Rotenberg, the director of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center,Integrating this capability into the Groupon app not only upgrades the redemption experience for both consumers and merchants, it also sondaflex provides Groupon and its merchants with a simple and elegant solution for addressing fraud by being able to track all the details of how and when offers are redeemed in real-time. a privacy rights group based in Washington.Sue Zemanick, the chef at Gautreau's and chef and co-owner of Ivy, both in New Orleans; and Bill Telepan,core barrel who this month plans to open a TriBeCa spinoff of Telepan, his eight-year-old restaurant on the Upper West Side.And the addition of such a machine to the labour market could force David Autor, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist, to rethink his theory about how technology wrecks the middle class.The minimum wage in the United States is $7.25, and $8 in California.Coming in substantially under those costs, Knightscope's robot watchman service raises questions about whether artificial intelligence and robotics technologies are beginning to assault both the top and the bottom of the workforce as well.The K5 is the work of Li, a former Ford Motor Company executive, and Stacy Dean Stephens, a former police officer in Texas.