News · moment 12 of 18
The NYPD's K5 Security Robot Debuts in the Subway
from K5 & Digidog | The Tim Dillon Show #362 · #362
4 min
News
Tim covers the rollout of the NYPD's autonomous K5 security robot in the Times Square subway station, joking about its cheap hourly leasing cost, facial recognition, and cops' relief at having something else to blame.
- NYPD deploys K5 security robot in Times Square subway station as part of mayor's push for more law enforcement technology.
- Tim advises New York residents to get on the good side of the autonomous bot because it's not going away.
- Cops are thrilled to have the bot as a scapegoat—they'll blame it when it starts pushing people onto subway tracks.
- For NYPD officers, the K5 is now their partner and their excuse for everything that goes wrong.
- The robot will expand beyond the subway to patrol streets, turning to look at people and running sensor checks.
- Tim dismisses comparisons to R2D2, insisting the K5 just looks like a trash can on wheels.
- K5 features four cameras with facial recognition capability, enabling immediate identification of individuals.
- Leasing the robot costs nine dollars per hour—cheaper than minimum wage with no bathroom or meal breaks required.
- Tim notes cops are quitting and cities are defunding police, so replacing officers with fully autonomous facial-recognition bots solves the problem.
- This autonomous robot with facial recognition is the first step in a larger surveillance expansion.
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