Police robots gather important information – for example, at crime scenes. They also ensure greater safety for police officers, because the robots are often deployed in dangerous situations.
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00:00 Police robots can disarm bombs.
00:04 Special sensors can detect dangerous chemicals or check for radioactive radiation.
00:10 Microphones, lidar and infrared cameras allow the police to get a sense of the crime scene before entering it.
00:17 This helps them to determine the best course of action.
00:20 Advancements in hardware development, according to Tang Eng, has meant robots can take on more complex tasks.
00:27 The engineer heads Teledyne FLIR's robotics department in the U.S., which manufactures security robots.
00:34 If you look at computers even just 10 years ago, right, we've got like 30x increase in computation power as we had back then.
00:41 That opens up a lot of possibilities. It's really driven ground robots up to a new level.
00:46 Robots, like the ones made by Teledyne FLIR, are used by law enforcement agencies around the world.
00:53 They can assist in hostage situations, disarm bombs and scan dangerous areas.
00:59 More than 4,000 robots with the PackBot model alone have been sold.
01:03 This highly mobile robot can climb stairs, maneuver difficult terrain and move in tight spaces.
01:10 The data collected by integrated cameras and sensors is processed in real time and shared with other police devices via the cloud.
01:18 If you look at commonality of data and data sharing, right, so now we're able to have ground robots that talk to aerial assets and also provide a common operating picture.
01:28 For now, police robots still work in tandem with human colleagues.
01:33 But machine learning could enable them to learn from their own experiences and take on more tasks independently.
01:40 We're starting to see robots do some of those autonomous tasks today, evaluation for instance, but also through some threat identification.