- Dublin Police Department retires robot cop “DubBot” after it made zero arrests and issued zero tickets.
Shout out to arguably the world’s most ethical — and laziest — robot cop. After less than a year on the job, it helped make zero arrests and issued zero tickets.
Its operators, unsurprisingly, have run out of patience. The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Dublin Police Department retired its mechanical crimefighter, nicknamed “DubBot,” last month, after the Ohio city euphemistically determined that it wasn’t meeting its operational needs, according to a spokesperson.
The oversized-traffic-cone-if-it-swallowed-a-giant-egg shaped machine is a K5 autonomous security robot built by Knightscope, a California-based firm. At a little over five feet in height and weighing some 400 pounds, it has no limbs to speak of and rolls around on two wheels, leading to comparisons to the Daleks from the “Doctor Who” franchise…