Russia's robocop starts patrol

R. BOT 001, Russia's first robot cop is now patrolling the streets of the city of Perm.Unlike many Russian policemen, this one won't take bribes, and is always polite. Meet R. BOT 001, Russia's first robot cop now patrolling the streets of the Urals city of Perm.
The prototype of a robot built at a Moscow institute is so far the only one of its kind in the country, state-owned Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily reported from Perm.With a shape somewhere between a bomb and an egg, the robot bears no resemblance to its two-legged, gun-blazing cousin in the Hollywood Robocop films, a photograph in the newspaper showed.But at 25kg, a height of 1.80m, and a form specially designed to make him almost impossible to manhandle, this robot is no pushover, Rossiiskaya Gazeta said.
'You can make it angry'
The machine boasts five cameras, a help button for passersby, and the ability to issue simple instructions, such as asking someone drinking alcohol on the street to take their booze indoors."You can't make it angry. When it repeats the same thing over and over in a monotone voice, then perhaps the information will sink in," said the robot's handler, quoted by the paper.Rain damaged the electronics on its first day and the robot will have to wait out the long Russian winter. But R. BOT 001 is learning."The police intend to give the robot a rank. He is a trainee now, then he will be a cadet," Rossisskaya Gazeta said. However, "they won't allow 'robocop' to make general".
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