The New York Police Department and Mayor Eric Adams are reintroducing the NYPD's robotic police dog and piloting two other technologies despite backlash from residents previously.
, not abuse technology," Fabien Levy, Adams's press secretary said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "That is why for the next three days we are displaying the K5 robot in Times Squareto ask questions and see the technology, and why we conducted tests of all three pieces of technology in front of a large crowd at the crossroads of the world today," Fabien said.
The StarChase’s GPS system is a handheld or vehicle-mounted device that discharges a GPS-enabled projectile at a car in order to track it, officials explained in the press conference.The city paid $750,000 for the robotic canines using money that was seized from criminals, an NYPD official said, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
The StarChase’s system provides a means to track vehicles by using a projectile that attaches a GPS enabled device which can then be tracked remotely. The StarChase GPS system is on lease to the NYPD.ordered the controversial robotic dog undergoing trials off the street, and a $94,200 contract with Boston Dynamics canceled.
When the robotic hound was used at a Manhattan housing project, advocates called it a symbolic of police aggression in minority and underprivileged communities. And others said it resembled the robots from the dystopian TV show"Black Mirror."
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