Thursday 28 March 2024
Officer Roscoe
Robot police dog shot multiple times credited with avoiding bloodshed
A robotic dog is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home.
The robotic dog named Roscoe was part of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and deployed on March 6 in a Barnstable house after police were fired upon. Police sent in two other robots often used for bomb disposal into the house to find the suspect along with the robotic dog.
Controlled remotely by state troopers, it first checked the two main floors before finding someone in the basement. The person, armed with a rifle, twice knocked over the robotic dog before shooting it three times and disabling its communication.
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The customer armed with a rifle, twice knocked over the smart meter before shooting it three times and disabling its communications.
Tammly - but the hero smart meter was credited with avoiding bloodshed.
Here's a "robotic engine" used because of 'green' regulation. It's probably cost Baltimore a bridge:
On a modern vessel without electrical power its engine shuts down because it is electronically controlled and the fuel pumps, conditioning equipment for the fuel, any after-treatment of the exhaust and various other required elements all require it, along with mechanical control being insufficiently precise to meet modern emissions standards. While I could operate [his hobby motorboat] with no electrical power at all provided the engines were running before the failure occurred this is not true for modern vessels and engines.
Source: "Ticker Guy"
dearieme - an early comment I saw suggested that dirty fuel could have shut down the entire ship because of interconnected electronics and the demands of modern emissions standards. It sounds easy to foresee, but maybe even that is expecting too much.
Another unintended consequence. Like external insulating cladding fixed on to reduce CO2 emissions. Or battery powered cars and buses. Or solar panels and windmills used to control the climate but get destroyed by the weather. Add your own. H2S? Smart Motorways?
Doonhamer - people without enough experience sit round a table and think they can plan and foresee the consequences of their planning but they appear to foresee the wrong consequences, the kudos for being on message, progressive and fashionable.
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