Knightscope claims the robot’s 193 million overall media impressions was worth over $5.8 million.
Wow this dystopia sucks
Knightscope claims the robot’s 193 million overall media impressions was worth over $5.8 million.
As soon as we figure out how to approach them without them sounding the alarm or relaying the picture to the police, we’ll start destroying them lol.
Depends how they detect humans. Possible ideas:
Infrared - have a sheet of glass in front of the camera
Lasers - have a shield of flat mirrors to reflect it away from you like a stealth fighter
ultrasound detections also possible - a feather suit or a shield of smooth flat faces to deflect the sound waves
A rock dropped from a bridge won’t do?
the pic in the link shows it is pretty massive, almost as big as a human. the size could mean it is heavily armored and also very heavy and difficult to carry away
also it has a cone shape like the Gherkin so it would likely deflect off the side
Maybe, but you need a bridge for that, and not miss. The easiest way to devise a strategy would be to get access to the robot’s specs. What it’s made of, how to open it… Or just push it in the water lol
Maybe you will need to start watching robot fighting to get ideas.
Weak spots I have identified from the pictures of the Gherkin Dalek:
The top has a 360 degree camera which is not armored and could be easy destroyed with a skateboard or a baseball bat. The hypothetical rioters in minecraft could then pour fuel into it
Gherkin Dalek probably can only operate in very flat surfaces due to being wheeled and hypothetical rioters could trap it by throwing objects around it
Due to its massive size it would be hard to topple. Pushing it over could be dangerous due to the weight and it may have a gyroscopic stabilizer inside also. A hypothetical rioter who attempted to push it over could fall and have the Giant Dildo roll over them. However the slit with the sensor near the top provides a point to tie a rope.
Several panels appear to have screws so if you had a screwdriver - maybe its one of the ones with a special shaped head. alternately rioters of the future could bring a circular saw
Hypothetical rioters should also turn off their mobile device signals since it has a detector
Short of trying it out on the fields (and I doubt I’ll see them for a long time), OR someone leaking the specs, I’m not sure we have any way of knowing. But trying it out directly is dangerous as you said,bbecause it tracks you and probably can stabilize itself if you try to topple it.
I wonder if they’re sold or leased to PDs, or if the robot’s are entirely owned by the maker. That makes the potential repercussions much different.
If anything yes, you should turn off your cellphone – but it says they can track phones up to 500m away. You should also obscure your face in case the video gets relayed automatically to a human. Baggy black clothes, a hoodie and a face covering should be enough I hope.
If I were to do it I would approach it as if I was just a pedestrian, then bear hug it to block one of the four cameras. Also probably spray paint the remaining cams just to be sure. Then yes probably find the weak spot, near the top, and work from there.You probably don’t have a lot of time though, it must be alerting someone if it’s unable to move.The idea however is not just to inconvenience the owners that have to repair it (that’s guerilla warfare that’s uncalled for against this type of threat) but really destroy it beyond repair.
Or maybe we’ll learn they’re not secure on the network and we can brick them remotely lol.
Could something like this be useful for that last idea? You’d still need to go home afterwards and run the stuff you collected through a program to try to decrypt it, but with a coordinated effort you might be able to find something.
Oh wow, that pwnagotchi is something I thought of making with a raspberry pi except much less evolved. Edit: although the device I imagined would then work as a wifi hotspot, basically connecting to the strongest wifi it can where it is, and then you connect to the raspberry with your phone or whatever. Essentially giving you free wifi anywhere, as long as it can crack the passwords lol
Though I have to wonder how the robots connect to the network. Maybe 4G? Using public wifi seems unreliable, that’s a good way to lose track of them. The article points out the robot can detect devices emitting a wifi signal, but that doesn’t mean it itself connects to wifi as well.
In addition to trapping it, it might also be possible to get something tangled in the wheels. Might make it fall over if it doesn’t have any way of sensing that?
self destruct sequence initiated
Wasn’t there google bots or smth that walked around in some cities a few years back? Or just one that tried to go as far as it could around the world? I vaguely remember this.
And it was promptly dismantled and left lying in the streets after like 48 hours when it reached the US.
Ya I remember that.
Found it, it was called Hitchbot. He got gutted in Philly.
Trying to give them quirky behavior reminds me of the Google skynet meme.
