Showing a rather shocking disregard for the long-term safety of human civilization, Microsoft has become one of the first companies to deploy autonomous robot security guards. Dubbed the K5, Microsoft ...

Your robot-takeover nightmares just became more real: Meet K5, the robot security guard that will retail for $6.25 an hour. This was probably inevitable. Last year’s Oxford University study on job ...

What’s 300-pounds, five-foot-tall, and shiny? No, not your average Walmart customer, but a robot security guard that bears an uncanny resemblance to Dr. Who’s xenophobic Daleks. K5, as the robot is ...

Walmart is rolling out a new security initiative — and shoppers are not happy with the corporation’s latest attempts at curtailing crime in store parking lots across the country. A customer in ...

TEMPE — If the sci-fi predictions of the 1950s had come true, laser-wielding robots might be threatening humans. Instead, modern-day robots are too busy doing household chores to wage war. At the ...

Asylon Inc., a provider of robotic perimeter security, today announced it has raised $26 million in early-stage funding led by global software investor Insight Partners. Veteran Ventures Capital, ...

Take a moment to imagine a world without robots. It’s hard, and for many, thinking back to the turn of the 20th century would be a “safe bet” of what a robot-less world might look like. Not primitive, ...

(TNS) — For 20 hours a day, seven days a week, a security robot rolls around the old Kansas City Star building on the 1600 block of McGee Street, like the 21st century version of a street patrolling ...

Silicon Valley firm Knightscope is best known for its K5 security robot: an ovoid tower on wheels that — when it's not knocking over toddlers or falling into fountains — patrols a few dozen of ...

For 20 hours a day, seven days a week, a security robot rolls around the old Kansas City Star building on the 1600 block of McGee Street, like the 21st century version of a street patrolling beat cop.