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Emory and Knightscope Collaboration

Acts of violence and property crime lead many communities, organizations, and individuals to up efforts in security. Knightscope, Inc., a developer of advanced security technologies utilizing fully autonomous robots continues to expand its offerings to fight and deter

Top 5 Mistakes When Hiring Security Robots

Yes, security robots are now a thing – and they are growing in use across the country! If you are evaluating the use of autonomous security robots, then we owe it to you to share a few tips since we’ve been at it for a while and have a ton of relevant real-world experi

Robots, Robots Everywhere!

Robots, robots everywhere – the growth is happening! Knightscope has now operated over 700,000 hours in the real world… not tucked away in some R&D laboratory somewhere. We have racked up numerous crime-fighting wins much earlier in the development of our technology

Now You See It and Now You Don’t!

Humans strive for 20/20 vision especially when playing “Where’s Waldo”! That level of vision is what is sometimes considered perfection (yes, if you get Lasik you can get to 15/15 but that is beside the point for this post). So, if we consider that to be good as a robot

Virtual Reality and Security Robots?!

For the last 5+ years, the team at Knightscope has been hard at work developing a unique set of technologies combining self-driving technology, robotics and artificial intelligence – to help make a massive positive social impact. Our long-term, slightly ambitious, goal

Knightscope Security Robots Rack Up More Crime Fighting Wins

Knightscope has documented and verified recent reports of the following benefits achieved utilizing its security robot technologies at numerous locations: Armed Robbery – security robot provided the best evidence of armed robbery and theft of vehicle. Data provided to

Securing America’s Healthcare Centers

The healthcare industry faces significant challenges in ensuring the safety and security of their patients, employees, visitors, vendors and facilities; regulatory compliance; preparing and responding to natural disasters; and other major business activities.

Why You Should Add Robots to Your Physical Security Program

For as long as assets needed protecting, we have always utilized some form of overwatch through guard patrols, access control and CCTV surveillance. Through the addition of the Community Oriented Policing model, we began to see the emergence of Crime Prevention Through

Can a #SecurityRobot See Through a Wall?

There are many, many movies where Superman can see through a wall and identify a bad person without having to see him/her (he has super-powers after all!). This is the main reason why people today think that a thermal camera on a security robot will give them the same c

How Does a #SecurityRobot See?

One of the jobs that a #securityrobot needs to be able to do (and do very well) is “seeing” what happens around it. The robot needs to understand what is happening so it can let humans know when something out of the ordinary is taking place. Vision is one of the most

Secure Our Country

So Who Gets Fired? Crime has a $1 trillion negative economic impact on the U.S. every single year. It is a hidden tax we all pay in blood, tears and treasure. A violent crime occurs every 24.6 seconds and a property crime every 4.1 seconds. Our country has 2+ million

Voices of Our Clients

Back in 2015 when we did our first deployment in the real world (yes, in public) we knew we had a groundbreaking idea but did not yet know how much we still had to learn. We think by now we have forgotten more than most folks know about operating fully autonomous

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