{"id":5688,"date":"2021-05-18T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technarrativelab.org\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:31:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:31:23","slug":"my-friends-call-me-murphy-you-call-me-robodog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2021\/05\/18\/my-friends-call-me-murphy-you-call-me-robodog\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy friends call me Murphy. You call me\u2026 robodog?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>via Eddie L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As referenced by the title, we have some strange things happening with the police force\u2026and this flavor of weirdness in particular comes not as a robo cop, but a robodog. As depicted in this <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/16\/the-future-of-crimefighting-tech-is-here-drones-and-robots\/\">New York Post<\/a> article, it seems that robotic dogs have entered into the police force. The reasoning? Police safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author claims that these 70-pound animatronics may indeed be the future of nonlethal crimefighting. Think about it; what if instead we sent non-lethal robots first into hostile situations instead of cops? Could we not save lives? Maybe even deescalate violence by having a non-lethal actor enter the house first?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, it seems like there has been a lot of push back against such an idea, with both social media and politicians having spoken out on it in the past. Indeed, it gives many <em>Black Mirror<\/em> vibes\u2026 but if the police officers have a warrant and it lowers the potential loss of life\u2026 could it really be that bad? I guess we will have to see how it all plays out\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until next time TNL readers &lt;3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Eddie L\u00f3pez As referenced by the title, we have some strange things happening with the police force\u2026and this flavor of weirdness in particular comes not as a robo cop, but a robodog. As depicted in this New York Post article, it seems that robotic dogs have entered into the police force. The reasoning? Police&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[41,66],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-robotics","tag-eddie-lopez","tag-tech-stream-residency"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/6533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}