300-pound crime-predicting mobile robot: Crime-preventing precog or ‘R2D2’s evil twin’?

Imagine a five-foot-tall, 300-pound mobile robot, which has a striking resemblance to R2D2 and “can see, hear, feel and smell” as it predicts and prevents crime. But not everyone thinks the surveillance-machine on wheels is cute; in fact, Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center, told The New York Times that the Knightscope K5 Autonomous Data Machine “is like R2D2’s…
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