It has been a long time since Dubai has been saying that a robot would be added to the Police staff to perform simple tasks to help officers. We are in 2017 and as they well warned at that time the country's police already have their humanoid robot operational.
Obviously this "robocop" is not like the one in the movie and will not defend citizens against organized crime and street gangs, but we can assure you that this robot manufactured by the Spanish company PAL Robotics and presented this Monday during the Gulf Information Security and Expo Conference, it will help agents by informing citizens and tourists, collecting parking fines or providing data to agents who require it.
We are at that key moment for robots to start helping in certain simple tasks and obviously they are not going to implement a weapon for the moment. Now what they want with this robot called REEM and which has quite restrained measures, 1,68 meters high, is to perform these simple tasks and later improve the software so that the robot performs other more delicate functions. In Dubai they want 2030% of their police officers to be robots by 25. At the moment we have the first that is capable of greeting, recognizing faces, speaking in 15 languages and making gestures with his hands.
In addition, thanks to the lower streams, it moves normally, it is necessary to investigate whether it could move on surfaces that are not as regular as sand or stones, but in principle, visitors to Dubai can be found since last night with this new Police officer patrolling streets. Really may arouse curiosity in many and "fear" in othersBut this is not going to keep Dubai going with its plans to add more robots to its workforce in the next few years.
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