Thursday, April 19

South Korea to release World's first Robot Guard

South Korea has recently developed a robot called "Robo-Guard". This 5 feet tall robot is specially designed for prisons to help in making their environment safer. It is currently in testing phase (costing nearly $750,000) and is being anticipated that this automation can minimize expenditures also.
The efficient robot is able to patrol the hallways between cells on thick rubber wheels and is armed with numerous things like cameras including 3D, microphone, speaker and software intended to assess prisoner’s behavior. It is such a smart robot that it can alert a human guard if it finds the behavior of a prisoner to be odd. Moreover, it can also be manually engaged through an iPad.
Phys.Org reports that the robots can also operate as wireless two-way communications devices since they let prisoners and guards to communicate with each other instantaneously resulting in quick emergency response.
The Asian Forum of Corrections hopes to deploy them permanently in prisons, if the testing phase spanning over one month period verifies them feasible. It also expects to fine tune them in a way that they can carry out random weapons and illicit searches.

View the Robot in action here! 



2 comments:

maqsood khan said...

lets hope it will work properly but manufacture cost is too high.

Unknown said...

yes...but it definitely will help in reducing the cost in hiring labrorers :-)