• Robot commits suicide – fall of machines?

    The R2D2 of the 21st century drowns itself! Elon Musk, once said, “With Artificial Intelligence we are summoning the demon”. He might be nearly right. A California based company, Knightscope developed a beta type robot called K5 that hopes to help with the security and law enforcement – with features to detect trouble and minimize public injuries and fatalities.     As per wiki, Knightscope K5 is a fully automated robot to monitor crimes in schools, businesses and neighborhoods using sensors that includes video camera, thermal imaging sensors, radar, air quality and a microphone. It is 5 feet tall and weighs 300 pounds.   This robot – that looks like…