Mass Produced Security Robots Introduced in U.S.selfnews Post Security robots have become a special area of interest for developers. Britain recently unveiled its first robot security guard. Bob is the outcropping of a worldwide initiative into robotic security set to appear at prisons, care facilities, schools, or perhaps a neighborhood near you. A U.S. robot called Vigilant MCP (Mobile Camera Platform) can be seen in the following video. The robot is being produced exclusively in the U.S. and is set to ramp up to mass production as orders demand. At $4 per hour fixed cost, it could significantly impact the 1.5 million humans that are currently employed in some form of security patrol. For professional security workers, the robot could pose a major threat to employment, as it offers key improvements for employers over flesh and blood workers. Robots never quit, and they dont call in sick. They are cost-effective at an average of $4 an hour fixed cost, explained Gamma 2 Robotics in a company video. The cost savings can go further unlike human workers, with the Vigilant MCP employers wont have to shell out for background checks or drug screening, and wont even need to leave the lights on as the robot will work happily in the dark. (Source) For now, this model is slated to fulfill typical night watchman duties. However, it continues to highlight how the low operating cost of bots is bound to replace entire sectors of the economy while opening the door for yet another potentially dystopian scenario of weaponized patrol that is given increasingly free rein to operate without even minimal human oversight. Machines will never be able to think. In fact, as you extrapolate the requirements for human-like abilities, you end up with are you ready: a human brain! Your job will NOT be to walk those empty factories at night searching for evil doers! No! Your job will be to build and maintain the tiny robots that do all that for us! https://www.facebook.com/honestyinreporting Dalek invasion! Bob is going to get hacked in 3 days after his deployment. And some drunk is going to mistake Bob for a urinal. And all remote cameras are readable by properly placed antennae. If robot phones werent enough, now there is robotic pretend-to-care-about-safety. Go to hell, Bob, and take your fraudulent security society with you. Ya, but will it vacuum as well? 