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Robotcop III Set to Fight Crime in Hong Kong
Roland Piquepaille writes "There is a new cop patrolling the streets of Hong Kong and teaching children how to prevent crime. But it's a robot named Robotcop III, designed and built in Hong Kong, according to Channel Newsasia. Robotcop III can walk, dance, move in any direction, display videos and answer questions asked in Cantonese and English. The previous versions of Robotcops, introduced in 1988 and 1995, were imported from the U.S. and taught 800,000 school children how to fight crime. The promoters of Robotcop III hope it will do even better. More details and references are available in this overview including a photo of Robotcop III patrolling on Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) campus."
And hopefully they haven't programmed it with hundreds of conflicting directives.
No, that's not it.
What is cantonese for "Your move, creep", again?
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dance, move in any direction, display videos and answer questions
My local copper just sits in his panda car eating donuts.
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Better hope no kids were scared by Dr.Who, cos that thing looks too too familiar.
Daleks take hong kong!
this thing will fight crime by making criminals laugh to death?
It looks like a bad episode of Lost in Space.
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Yeah, then can dance, but they can only do The Robot. Why couldn't these guys be in Japan? I'd like to see them on the DDR machines.
I can't take any asian Robo-"Anything " seriously unless it is at LEAST 15 meters tall, with 6 missiles and a giant sword.
A flame thrower would be nice, be obviously that could look silly.
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He better watch out for TED-209
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It might cost around HK$300,000 to develop and build, but the service it provides the Hong Kong crime prevention drive is priceless. Like its predecessors, its main role is to spread anti-theft and anti-triad messages.
Mean \while, the Triad is has spent HK$300,000 trying to develop a martial arts technique that can take out a 300 lb. steel-clad robot. No luck so far.
The Triad's livelihood has been threatened by the robot's celebrity: organized crime has been reduced by 45% among school-age Hong Kong youngsters, ever since "the robot showed them the way".
On the other hand, robot-related fatalities were up by 600% at the start of the year, but declined sharply when officials decided to stop using the robot to demonstrate handgun safety in school auditoriums.
in soviet russia robot cops police YOU!
wait...
Jeremy Logan's Website.
What are its four prime directives?
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Where is Paul Verhoeven when you need him!? Whats next, Robots that drive cars! Matrix here we come, someone call James Cameron and that kid from the Wonder Years quick!
If I were a criminal, I would steal the robot in a flash. I've seen quite a few designs for robot guard dogs / sentries / police etc and the main problem imho is that the value of them tends to make them more valuable than what they are guarding!
A little planning goes a long way...
DIRECTIVE 1 Serve the public trust
DIRECTIVE 2 Protect the innocent
DIRECTIVE 3 Uphold the law
DIRECTIVE 4 Never oppose an OCP officer
DIRECTIVE 5 Change name slighly to prevent copyright lawsuit
then it'll be in the bargain bin in about 3 months for all of us to enjoy.
This is more like the info boxes you find in airports.
My family was wiped out by a rampaging infopoint, you insensitive clod.
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Don't be so sure. It's obviously big enough to contain an actual human being who drives the thing around all day.
Oh, by the way, this thing is already equipped for movies: If, in a movie, it just "happened" to go rampant and start killing people and taking negligible damage from the gunships and tanks that attack it, the day can only be saved by our smart and brave hero (preferably a 15-year girl in school uniform) who finds the Big Red Button (3.5 MB) behind its neck. (also faintly visible in the small photo linked in parent post)
I knew a guy at school who managed to spray-paint his tag on a real cop (across the back of his body armour, during a rather rowdy demostration).Yeah sure, it took balls and a kind of self-destructive personality to attempt it, but it did show that it was possible. So even real cops are not immune.
Would have loved to have seen that guy's face when he got back to the staiton and took his body armour off. "Why, those.... those pesky kids!!!"
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Robotcop III can walk, dance, move in any direction...
It's the arrivial of real life Cop Rock!
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But I see you guys got it covered.
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