Patra Caesar
07-04-2005, 03:49
Let us welcome our new cybernetic overloards! So do you think that there is a place in society for humans to be under control of heartless robots? Do you think one day Arnie-terminators will come and rule us all? Or is this just what we need? Do you think we can bribe them with batteries and oil?
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12780751-13762,00.html)
Japanese town gets real Robocop
From correspondents in Tokyo
April 07, 2005
THE safety of a Japanese neighborhood has been put in the hands - briefly - of a robot, which became police chief for the day in a campaign to promote safe driving.
T63 Artemis, named after the Greek moon goddess of the same name, helped its subordinate human officers distribute fliers on traffic safety at the train station after its appointment as head of Hakata station and surrounding neighorhood in the southern city of Fukuoka.
The 157cm tall Artemis, which has two arms and weighs 100kg, can go on patrol with the help of a battery, police said.
Locally developed Artemis will entere the record books as the first robot police chief in Japan, where robots are being put to growing use for security.
The World Exposition, a six-month showcase of technology in central Aichi prefecture, has eight security robots on patrol day and night.
A Hakata police spokesman said the robot chief "sought to attract people's attention," particularly because "robots have been a centerpiece in the World Exposition in Aichi."
Fortunately, the robot was not police chief on March 20, when the Fukuoka area was rattled by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale which killed one person and injured hundreds more.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12780751-13762,00.html)
Japanese town gets real Robocop
From correspondents in Tokyo
April 07, 2005
THE safety of a Japanese neighborhood has been put in the hands - briefly - of a robot, which became police chief for the day in a campaign to promote safe driving.
T63 Artemis, named after the Greek moon goddess of the same name, helped its subordinate human officers distribute fliers on traffic safety at the train station after its appointment as head of Hakata station and surrounding neighorhood in the southern city of Fukuoka.
The 157cm tall Artemis, which has two arms and weighs 100kg, can go on patrol with the help of a battery, police said.
Locally developed Artemis will entere the record books as the first robot police chief in Japan, where robots are being put to growing use for security.
The World Exposition, a six-month showcase of technology in central Aichi prefecture, has eight security robots on patrol day and night.
A Hakata police spokesman said the robot chief "sought to attract people's attention," particularly because "robots have been a centerpiece in the World Exposition in Aichi."
Fortunately, the robot was not police chief on March 20, when the Fukuoka area was rattled by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale which killed one person and injured hundreds more.