“RoboCop” is a 2014 film about a crime-fighting cyborg. Dubai Police have revealed their first robot officer, giving it the task of patrolling the city’s malls and tourist attractions. Now, this is real-life RoboCop!
Read more about the first robot police here:
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1705/170530-robot-police-officer.html
Discussion Questions:
1. What is your general opinion about robot police officers?
2. Some see robots as menacing, some see them as helpful – how about you?
3. What do you expect from a police officer? Do you think this robot will be a better alternative?
4. Do you think your government needs to spend money on employing more police officers, or availing robot police?
5. What other roles will robots play in our society later this century?
10 replies on “Robot Police Officer”
1. What is your general opinion about robot police officers?
I think that they can be useful for some tasks, but that they can’t replace humans for other ones.
2. Some see robots as menacing, some see them as helpful – how about you?
I think that we should learn to take advantage of them since they will be able to make our life easier. However, I admit that we will need to adapt our lives because it is quite probable that they will make disappear much of the current professions.
3. What do you expect from a police officer? Do you think this robot will be a better alternative?
The job of a police officer conists on both, doing administrative tasks like given directions or process impingements, and guarding the streets and the public centers. I think that the robot could help in both tasks complementing the job of the other humans police officers.
4. Do you think your government needs to spend money on employing more police officers, or availing robot police?
I think that in Spain we are not prepared yet for this technology. It will be better for the government to employ more police officers.
5. What other roles will robots play in our society later this century?
Robots in factories are already widely implemented. Also, they are starting to be quite common in shops.
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1. What is your general opinion about robot police officers?
I think that it´s a new resource for having police presence and solve safety´s basic problems while the human police agents dedicate their time for fighting againts the crime.
2. Some see robots as menacing, some see them as helpful – how about you?
Obviusly, the robots must be dedicated to help to human agents for repetitive and simply tasks, a robot can´t replace an human agent.
3. What do you expect from a police officer? Do you think this robot will be a better alternative?
I don´t known, may be in the future the robots will be the alternative in a lot of jobs, police agent also, but I think that a police officer must go further to serve and protect than a robot can do.
4. Do you think your government needs to spend money on employing more police officers, or availing robot police?
The police needs human agents who can work with technology, there are risk situations (bomb squad) and simply tasks (burocracy, public information) where the robots are helping for a better efficience.
5. What other roles will robots play in our society later this century?
The robots are fundamental in industry 4.0 but we have them in home also, washing, helping to have a more comfortable life
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1. What is your general opinion about robot police officers?
My opinion is that the robot police will never replace to police human because we need to keep contact with human in some special and critical occasion and the robot don’t have feeling or sensitivity.
2. Some see robots as menacing, some see them as helpful – how about you?
I see them as helpful in some position and menacing in other. For example in the industry they are working very well doing routine and heavy tasks but when we need to put finesse or feeling in some work the robot don’t work well.
3. What do you expect from a police officer? Do you think this robot will be a better alternative?
I expect from a police officer a help attitude to the citizen. I think that the robot could be a better alternative in some routine task but not in all.
4. Do you think your government needs to spend money on employing more police officers, or availing robot police?
I think that it would be useful to spend money in both alternative, to employ more police officer and also available robot police
5. What other roles will robots play in our society later this century?
I think that there are a lot of roles where robots can play in our society. The robots are very efficient, hard workers, have precision, process a lot information, etc and all of these qualities are very useful for the industry.
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1. What is your general opinion about robot police officers?
In my opinion a police officer can hardly be replaced by a robot.
Some of its functions, such as providing emotional support to people in certain situations, will hardly be carried out by a robot. Other more bureaucratic functions can surely be carried out by a robot.
2. Some see robots as menacing, some see them as helpful – how about you?
I think they are useful, they can do some routine jobs more accurately than human beings. For example, in the microchip industry, its results and efficiency would be worse or in some cases impossible to achieve if robots are not used.
3. What do you expect from a police officer? Do you think this robot will be a better alternative?
From a police officer I expect an aptitude for service towards the citizens.
Sure, robots can be better and more efficient in some functions, especially as I indicated above, in some bureaucratic functions, but there are other functions that cannot be performed by them.
4. Do you think your government needs to spend money on employing more police officers, or availing robot police?
I think both.
More robot police used as terminals to connect citizens with their Administration and the time that police officers currently dedicate to the above functions can be oriented to improve and increase the service to citizens
5. What other roles will robots play in our society later this century?
Any role where precision, speed, mechanical actions and transmission and storage of information are necessary
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– What is your general opinion about robot police officers?
I believe that police robots are a good initiative to implement artificial intelligence in real-world security.
– Some see robots as menacing, some see them as helpful – how about you?
I think that robots have capacities to resolve problems that common person cant do resolve. For example robots can do sourgery with more precision than one human. But on the other hand Robots i have afraid that they may rebel against us.
– What do you expect from a police officer? Do you think this robot will be a better alternative?
I expect him to be an effective and empathetic person. For the first thing i guess a robot is more effective than one human but on the other side, related with empathy the person is better.
– Do you think your government needs to spend money on employing more police officers, or availing robot police?
By the moment the government needs spend money 50% in good education for people can study to program this robots and the other 50% in police officier for protects the citizians.
– What other roles will robots play in our society later this century?
In general the use of robots is more extended that people think. In this century the use of robots for cleaning house, cooking or virtual assistance like alexa will be extended to all people and i think the greatest advance will be the autonomous driving.
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By the moment the government needs spend money 50% in good education for people can study to program this robots and the other 50% in police officier for protects the citizians.
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