Singapore releases the robot hounds to enforce social distancing in parks
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/10/singapore_robot_dog_social_distancing_patrols/
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As [1]outlined by GovTech Singapore, the nation’s digital advancement agency, the beast is a Boston Dynamics [2]Spot device that’s been programmed to roam a 3km stretch in the River Plains section of Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park during off-peak hours.
“A recorded message will be broadcast from SPOT to remind park visitors to observe safe distancing measures. SPOT will also be fitted with cameras – enabled with GovTech-developed video analytics – to estimate the number of visitors in parks,” the agency says.
Govtech promises the cameras “will not be able to track and/or recognise specific individuals, and no personal data will be collected.”
[3]Youtube Video
Spot’s controlled remotely, which means Singaporean park staff don’t need to go out into virus-exposed meatspace to do their jobs and also don’t interact with those braving the open air.
The video above shows that Spot certainly keeps people a safe distance apart: they first seem to be creeped out by the bot, then retreat from it to take a photo.
The agency also says it chose Spot because it can navigate varied terrain, meaning the robo-cop-dog won’t just wander park paths but could also walk over a hill or climb stairs in its quest to find humans to warn.
Just received the most Singaporean pandemic content from a mate based in the little red dot [4]pic.twitter.com/vqgnQ5F4D9 — Soon-Tzu Speechley 孫子 (@speechleyish) [5]May 8, 2020
Singapore’s also trialing Spot to carry medicine to patient in hospitals. ®
Bootnote : Here's a Boston Dynamics promo showing off Spot's capabilities.
[6]Youtube Video
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[1] https://www.tech.gov.sg/media/media-releases/spot-robot-trial-for-safe-distancing-operations
[2] https://www.bostondynamics.com/spot
[3] https://youtu.be/viuR7N6E2LA
[4] https://t.co/vqgnQ5F4D9
[5] https://twitter.com/speechleyish/status/1258685782904016896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[6] https://youtu.be/wlkCQXHEgjA
[7] https://go.theregister.co.uk/tl/1936/-8579/choosing-a-low-code-vendor?td=wptl1936
It'll just shoot
The example scenario has already been designed and simulated in a [1]Black Mirror of Metalhead horror.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5710984/
Re: It'll just shoot
I think that Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451got there sometime before with his mechanical hound - which I assume was being referred to in the original post.
Re: It'll just shoot
I assumed that anybody reading this article will also have read Bradbury. I think perhaps I'm getting old.
Re: It'll just shoot
Which was based upon Brooker seeing BD's "Big Dog"
I think I've read stories that start like this, and they never end well:
First they came for the covidiots, and I did not speak out because I was not a covidiot...
Just wear the mask
Berkerley University modelled it, wearing the mask and some basic distancing and you've cured it. Just like Asia has.
https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~dekai/mirror/masksim/
These robots things are marketing, I saw one in a hotel in Singapore, a hotel room delivery robot, and they said its only for show. It will only deliver around the lobby. You're supposed to be impressed with Singapore's Hi-Tech'ness but its a bit of show. They have lots of cheap labor and use that, not the robots.
They'll have Malaysia workers slapping people silly if they refuse to wear masks.
****
Hawaii has zero new cases a day now. I expect the Republican Supreme Court, to try to force Hawaii's borders to be opened to infected Republican States and try to undermine their quarantine. Republicans look desperate to keep the plague going till election time.
People would be better than robots here, if you see someone without a mask, saying "you're sheep it only kills 1% of the population", slap them silly, that 1% could be one of your loved family members, and its likely 2% not 1.
If bad actors* like Hannity or a Laura Ingrahams, or Kavanaugh or Betsy Devos, or Trump or Ron DeSantis, or Brian Kemp, weren't undermining quarantine, you'd expect a rapid fall off of cases over May. Instead they're managing to sustain it at 25k a day, i.e. they're killing about 500 people a day unnecessarily by undermining quarantine with their lying partisan shit.
So 31*500/2 = 7750, so they're shit is responsible for about ~8k deaths in May, and about 15-16k deaths each month they manage to sustain it after that.
* Fox News pundits are bad faith actors.
Here's Tucker Carlson admitting it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNineSEoxjQ&feature=youtu.be
It's an act. If you see them trying to undermine quarantine protocols, someone has scripted that opinion piece for them. If you're a Fox New viewer realize you're being played.
Local wildlife
In the UK, would it survive an encounter with a common red shirtless park thug?
Re: Local wildlife
I am sure [1]Sid could dismantle Spot but as Robomutt is remote controlled there should by quality video of who is responsible for the criminal damage.
[1] https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Sid_Phillips
Re: Local wildlife
Can Pixar reuse the footage?
Re: Local wildlife
In the UK, it would be a challenge to chavs in hoodies to find a way to nick Spot, tracking them down via their Faecbook video posts wouldn't be too hard though.
Possibly fitting Spot with an energised exterior as an anti molestation strategy could be amusing.
Edited to suggest mounting a BRRZZZTT! cattle prod for self defence would also be amusing.
NEWS SCOOP!
[1]Raspberry Pi's discovered training forcing ENSLAVING Spot robot into carrying them for rides around Singapore park!
I spy a Pi4 atop a... lesser Pi of some sort.
[1] https://youtu.be/2DJmIjKtVkA?t=172
The important questions...
Will it bark incessently and chase cats, sniff peoples' arses, and leave little piles of chips (roboshit) everywhere? Because if so then will there be robo dog catchers to handle the little playful plastic pals that are fun to be with?
Coming next: ED209.
Approaches lone jogger
"You must stand 6 ft apart."
"You have 20 seconds to comply."
"You have 10 seconds to comply."
"5"...
K9
All it needs is a big Tom Baker style scarf.
But will it inject lethal chemicals into anybody caught reading books?