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Silicon Valley Security Robot Beat Up In Parking Lot, Police Say
By David Keavets
A 300-pound egg- shaped security
robot was punched to the ground by an allegedly drunken man outside a
Silicon Valley shop- ping center, Mountain View police said.
A 41-year-old Mountain View man has been arrested in connection to the alleged parking-lot altercation with the Knightscope-made droid. The accused robo- assailant, who
faces charges ofprowling and pub- lic intoxication, was
identified as Jason Sylvain. The robot suffered minor scratches and is back on duty follow- ing last week's inci- dent, which was first reported Tuesday by ABC7 News.
Sylvain was not immediately reach- able for comment.
Last year, one of the Knightscope's secu- rity robots knocked over a 16-month-old
child at a Silicon Valley shopping cen- ter. The robot ran over the boy's right foot, causing bruis- ing but not breaking it.
The five-foot-tall, K5 robots can read 300 license plates per minute. They also are equipped to sup- ply 360-degree video streaming. Once an anomaly is detected by these robots, they alert
security guards. The robots are not armed.
Knightscope, which is based in Mountain View, charges $7 per hour for the robots that the com- pany claims will soon be able to detect guns. The company says it has dozens of clients, including Microsoft and the NBA's Sacramento Kings.
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