The NYPD's Knightscope K5 robot, which debuted to fanfare from Mayor Eric Adams last April in Times Square, has been retired after a little more than five months. The controversial security robot, once hailed as a 'good investment' for public safety, ended its service motionless like a sad Wall-E, gathering dust in a vacant storefront. Despite the city's active contract, the robot, criticized as useless and purgatory-bound, has been in storage for two months, no longer patrolling the busy subway station.
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NYPD’s futuristic subway surveillance robot has been sitting in storage for two months despite city holding active contract on high-tech public safety gadget Mayor Adams hailed it as a 'good investment' https://t.co/pF8dEbIAr4
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The New York City subway has pulled its controversial security robot out of service after little more than five months patrolling the busy Times Square station https://t.co/kusTWZs9Ce
The NYPD’s Knightscope K5 robot debuted last April in Times Square amid fanfare from Mayor Eric Adams. He hoped it would help bring safety and order to the subways alongside officers. It ended its brief tour exiled to a vacant storefront, all alone. https://t.co/BihSGqlCan https://t.co/PzOSVkkmAg
This is sad 🙁 -------------- 'The New York Police Department robot sat motionless like a sad Wall-E on Friday morning, gathering dust inside an empty storefront within New York City’s busiest subway station.' 'No longer were its cameras scanning straphangers traversing Times… https://t.co/jOCE7p5H3P