ORFO robot put on chaperon duty at Korean school
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 1st 2007 2:44PM
posted June 1st 2007 2:44PM
In a bit of a step down after serving as a security guard at last year's World Cup, the German-designed ORFO robot is now being put on what amounts to chaperon duty at a middle school in South Korea as part of a trial project, which could eventually see the robots keeping an eye on students across the country. As at the World Cup, the robot packs a camera and microphone to monitor its surroundings, and can either be manually controlled or programmed to follow a specific route using its built-in GPS. Unlike some other security bots, however, ORFO isn't able to directly intervene in problematic situations itself, with it only able to issue a warning that a human security guard is on the way. [Via The Register]
can you imagine how much student abuse this thing would suffer in an American public high school?
(1.) Get below the camera angle without being seen (any between class rush will do),
(2.) slide some kind of paper collar over the video feed.
(3.) It just gets ugly from here... I wonder if it has any accessible programming ports.
Hopefully no little kids get run over by this thing
Those crazy Germans/Koreans, giving their civilian robots a camouflage paint job. It's almost as if they want them to look imposing/menacing.
Oh, and I guess it'll give the 'bots a natural advantage in the imminent robot uprising and following conflict with their former human masters.
Crazy koreans and their starcraft playing bots......
Wow!I can barely see it!That camouflage really works!
looks like a tank
Until the robots start looking like this:
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/r/robocop2.jpg
The kids will ignore their new robot overlords.
Quite obvious that they are not designed to intervene is because they are being used in Korea. Did they not recently issue the robotic ethics?