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Uber Hires Robot Security Guards To Patrol Their Inspection Lot

Uber as a company continues to grow, however, primarily adding robot employees. The taxi service has made quite a few headlines since the start. Many people, especially taxi companies and drivers, have long been angered by the rapid growth of Uber. When they announced that they are heavily investing in autonomous cars, potentially outing human drivers in the future, a landslide of complaints was voiced around the world. Automation is not always the answer to profitability, however, for Uber it could potentially make the company even more profitable. Until they have completed work on their autonomous taxis they are stuck with their car inspection lots. To lower costs, Uber has taken automation even one step further by hiring robot security guards to patrol their large car lots.

The robot guards named K5, are developed by Knighscope, and they come in pairs. Why? While one of the robot guards are patrolling the grounds, the other one recharges. Once the patrolling guard is starting to run out of batteries they smoothly switch. This to make sure the grounds are secure 24/7.

The k5 robot security guards are 300-pound heavy Dalek-looking robots basically consisting of sensors, cameras, and speakers. They cost around $7.00 per hour to operate and don’t complain about working hours. All data is streamed to a human watcher to make sure everything is in order should the robot fail to detect something.

The robot guards can also read license plates, which honestly make them more of caretakers of the ground rather than guards. Whether Uber will continue to use these robot security guards once their autonomous cars are put into action, I don’t know. Either way, hopefully, Uber won’t ask Knightscope to implement artificial intelligence into these funny-looking robots. That could spell disaster as mentioned by some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Elon Musk.

Do you think it’s wise for Uber to switch to autonomous vehicles and robot guards? What’s your opinion? Let us know in the comment section below.

Uber’s Robot Security Guards In Action

SOURCE: [TECHNABOB]
Richard Darell

Richard Darell is the founder and CEO of Bit Rebels, a multifaceted online news outlet that reports daily on the latest developments in technology, social media, design and everything geek. Today this media entity welcomes more than 3.5 million unique visitors per month and is considered the go-to place for people in constant motion. As an Internet entrepreneur, he is dedicated to constantly trying to develop new ways to bring content faster and closer to the end user in a more streamlined way. His excitement for statistics has allowed him to further develop systems that continuously produce accurate and fast-paced analytics to better optimize the approach by which Bit Rebels presents news and content. His graphic design background has proven to be an important tool when designing new systems and features for Bit Rebels since the development of solid and stable code depends entirely on their structure and implemented procedures. Richard currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden and directs the Bit Rebels offices in both Stockholm and Atlanta. You can reach Richard at richard@bitrebels.com

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