Crime Fighting Robot

Diego Diaz 23 Jul, 2004 at 11:04am ET Article published in Tech

A Japanese Company named “Secom” has developed a Crime fighting robot. Secom says this robot can not only detect burglars, but it can also chase them at speeds of 10mph

JAPANESE FIRM Secom has shown off a robot which it claims will not only detect burglars but follow them at speeds of 10 miles an hour.

Today’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports that the machine, which weighs 120 kilogrammes, uses a car battery and will pursue intruders for up to 24 kilometres.

The report said that the robot can also billow out smoke, flash lights and make noises at the burglars.

real scary stuff…

Source: The inquirer

Comments

23 Jul 2004 ~ 11:15am BLuKnight I'd like to see a picture of this bot. I mean... can you just turn it over and it's stuck?
23 Jul 2004 ~ 1:31pm RWB It has a crazy kung foo grip!
23 Jul 2004 ~ 1:40pm Gobbles umm you aint gonna follow anything doing 10 mph... and you wont most certainly wont follow for 24k. Its not like the burglar is walking away. Most would get in a car and drive off and I hardly believe that they would speed away from the crime at a blistering 10 miles per hour....

all fear the crazy kung fu grip...

Gobbles
23 Jul 2004 ~ 3:03pm Jengo just imagine a big ass robot chasing you at 10mph.

lol
23 Jul 2004 ~ 3:37pm EyesOnly I don't think that the robot is supposed to catch anyone, just chase them away. Then it doesn't have to move quickly to work.

Edit
Hey RWb where did you see that grip. i haven't found any pics of this thing. BTW am i the only one that thinks about Johnny 5 when i hear about this.
23 Jul 2004 ~ 5:27pm Nomad I think it needs Karate Chop Action.
23 Jul 2004 ~ 5:31pm primesuspect Judo Chop!
23 Jul 2004 ~ 5:47pm Linc

EyesOnly wrote:

Hey RWb where did you see that grip.

That was probably a lost-in-translation remark. Makers of children's toy action figures in the US often have commercials with narrators saying things like "Comes with real Kung-Fu action grip!" so he was playing off of that :bigggrin:
23 Jul 2004 ~ 8:13pm RWB

General Keebler wrote:

That was probably a lost-in-translation remark. Makers of children's toy action figures in the US often have commercials with narrators saying things like "Comes with real Kung-Fu action grip!" so he was playing off of that :bigggrin:

hehe, yeah.... good times.

:ukflag:

I never would have figured somoene wouldn't know what I was talking about, it was GI JOE and other great action figures... boy, I can't stop laughing about this either
24 Jul 2004 ~ 2:08am Gobbles

primesuspect wrote:

Judo Chop!

Make it talk like austin powers and say "judo chop" when it comes at you would the ultimate baby yeah...

Gobbles
24 Jul 2004 ~ 2:22am madmat

Gobbles wrote:

Make it talk like austin powers and say "judo chop" when it comes at you would the ultimate baby yeah...

Gobbles

The only problem is that you'd just look at it and tell it to be-have baby and it'd leave you alone...
24 Jul 2004 ~ 2:24am yagga I think it will turn into something like in the movie I Robot.