Friday, December 6, 2013

Ex-Ford and Carbon Motors exec working on robot security guards

Ex-Ford and Carbon Motors exec working on robot security guards

Back in 2003, former Ford executive William Santana Li and former police officer Stacey Dean founded Carbon Motors, a company that designed a purpose-built diesel police car that recently filed for bankruptcy. But they're at it again, this time with a new company and a new invention that looks eerily similar to R2D2: a robotic security guard. Their new Sunnyvale, California-based company is called Knightscope. Its product: the K5 Autonomous Data Machine.

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