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The New York Times reports:
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 Square. No longer were subway riders pressing its help button, if ever they had. New York City has retired the robot, known as the Knightscope K5, from service.
The Police Department had been forced to assign officers to chaperone the robot, which is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 400 pounds. It could not use the stairs. Some straphangers wanted to abuse it. It was an ignominious end for an experiment that Mayor Eric Adams, a self-described tech geek, hoped would help bring safety and order to the subways, at a time when crime remained a pressing concern for many New Yorkers.
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The robot only launched four months ago.
“I described it as a trash can on wheels, but it looks like the wheels aren’t even working at this point.” https://t.co/Hppn386bq2
— Errol Louis (@errol.louis on Threads) (@errollouis) February 2, 2024
Mayor Eric Adams instructed the press to write, “Eric, job well done,” and then tried to make a hand-heart with the robot, which has no arms. https://t.co/XiqPY8lzYP
— VICE (@VICE) September 22, 2023
Mayor Adams, pictured below smiling with the NYPD’s new RoboCop, wants to cut $2.1 billion from education, $1.4 billion from social services, $800 million from homeless aid, $300 million from the FDNY and $200 million from hospitals because NYC doesn’t have the money. 🫠 https://t.co/75b3rEcokU
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) September 22, 2023