Dubai will roll out self-driving, drone-launching police bots, because of course

Dubai, the self-proclaimed "Future City," is getting its own unit of autonomous, drone-launching robotic police vehicles, because what's more future than that.

The city's police force will be the first in the world to roll out Singapore startup Otsaw Digital's O-R3 autonomous robot, according to a report from the Gulf News spotted by The Verge. The self-driving, self-charging electric bots might be small — the Gulf News compared the size of the O-R3 to an electric kiddie car — but they purportedly boast a suite of features that could make them formidable security guards once they start rolling a beat.  Read more...

More about Police, Dubai, Self Driving Robots, Tech, and Drones

http://ift.tt/2s7cEQA from Tech http://ift.tt/2u46xy2
via IFTTT