World’s first robot cop begins duty in Dubai, is way less cool than you’d think
The world’s first robotic cop has joined the Dubai police. According to Reuters, the automated officer was built by a Barcelona-based robotics company and is part of a government program to supplement all its lazy, sleepy, illness-prone human cops with machines that look like a training dummy mounted to the top of a carpet cleaner. Should this initial roll-out prove successful and not the morally dubious mess science fiction has trained us to assume it will be, officials hope to have robots making up 25 percent of the city’s police force by 2030.
