Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Skip to Content
Tech

Dubai’s Robot Cop

Dubai’s Robot Cop

Despite every bit of pop culture telling us that robots are going to kill all of us in horrifically violent ways (the most popular way being waging an extremely one-sided thermonuclear war), Dubai went ahead and built itself a robot cop. Supposedly the 5′ 5″ 222 lb robot will use facial recognition software to catch suspects, broadcast live video, and allow people to pay fines, and the current plan for Dubai is to have a quarter of its police force be robotic by 2030. It makes sense that Dubai is the first place to make this change. They’ve already made their preference for tech spending for their police for clear, as they’re the ones tearing around in insane supercars. But from what we know of the Dubai police force, they’re not exactly the friendliest force on the planet and giving them an emotionless robot enforcer might not be a great move. They’ve tortured tourists, regularly abuse migrant workers, and there are already plans to use the robot to bust labor strikes. There might not be anything wrong with a robotic police force, but maybe we should have started that grand experiment in a different city.