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Wouldn't it be more helpful to have robots scooping up [stuff] from the sidewalks and sanitizing things?
by mikece 4y ago
Wouldn't it be more helpful to have robots scooping up [stuff] from the sidewalks and sanitizing things?
- ccvannorman 4y agoIn Singapore maybe .. this is America! If there's anything we're good at domestically, it's using lethal police force.
- donkeyd 4y agoYou can drop the 'police' from that sentence and it stays true!
- fallingknife 4y agoIf you study history, that's a good thing to be good at!
- edgyquant 4y agoNo it would be equally as helpful except that part will never get funding while drones that take the burden off of police will.
- amalcon 4y agoIf it were actual (autonomous) robots, yes. The article is actually talking about ROVs (remote-operated vehicles). The city still needs to pay a human operator, who happens to be a moderate distance away. It's arguably financially justified in the policing case because policing can be dangerous. Cleaning up [stuff] and sanitizing things isn't particularly dangerous, so you're basically just buying a robot to make your janitor less efficient.