Licensing Robot Dogs.....

[Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438]

No sooner does a local tech company announce plans to sell robotic dogs as security devices, than the former Boston Police Commissioner (now a private security consultant) call for "licensing", claiming that the police "need to know what they are facing".

 

Um, it's a mechanical dog with no head, no jaws, no teeth and no claws.  What will a license accomplish (other than the creation of another governmental revenue stream)?

 

Still, it's a bit unsettling to watch; how would you like to be chased by one or two of these in a dark warehouse?

 

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/2018/05/boston_dynamics_to_start_selling_robots_eyes_use_as_security_guards

 

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/2018/05/ex_boston_top_cop_edward_davis_says_boston_dynamics_robodog_should_be

 

 

LL

[Trailrider #896]

Well, suppose your robotic dog was made by an outfit that wanted to use it to hack into your computer, or to disrupt the digital images on a police body camera?  Never mind firearms, if you were the police, wouldn't you want the mechanical pooch licensed?  By, golly, there oughta be a law!

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

They're gonna end up with a bunch of oily fire hydrants.  

[Jittery Jim Jonah, SASS #64913L]

Ya might hafta get an H1B visa for them as they are coming from outside the U.S. to work.....

 

JJJ

[Smoky Pistols]

I wonder how effective those would be as part of a security system?

[Chantry]

Reminds me far to strongly of the 'Black Mirror' episode "Metal Head" 

 

 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5710984/?ref_=ttep_ep5

[Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438]

2 hours ago, Smoky Pistols said:

I wonder how effective those would be as part of a security system?

 

I wonder if they can get back up once you tip them?

 

LL

[Pat Riot]

Licensing = Taxation

Wasn't there a Tea Party in this regard some years back?...

[Sedalia Dave]

5 hours ago, Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 said:

 

I wonder if they can get back up once you tip them?

 

LL

 

If they are anything like the rest of the products Boston Dynamics makes they are really hard to knock over and can right themselves if they do fall.

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Reminds me of a line from  movie: (Pocket Full Of Miracles, I think), "if I ain't been drinkin' why am I seeing this?"