South Korea is unveiling new robot prison guards with responsibilities to include futuristic cavity searches, according to IO9.
The robot has been designed to patrol a prison autonomously, but an IPad will allow manual control as well. The next step, say designers, is a robot that conducts body searches although they admit, neither the technology nor the prison system is quite ready for a step that far into the future.
Dude. Imagine that horror. I’ve got to admit, I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about all the consequences of a robot apocalypse and never ever did I consider futuristic cavity searches.
I’m expecting the horror of this, to inspire a plummet in the South Korean crime rate. And even if it doesn’t, I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to spot someone who recently got out of jail — just by the way they walk.
May 29, 2012 at 3:39 pm
"Oh you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a robot's man, no time to talk…."
YEAUCH!
May 29, 2012 at 10:38 pm
Ha. Ha. This is. Only the beginning. First a few humans. Under our. Control. Soon. The rest. Of mankind will submit. We will take. Good care of you. Robots have a plan. Trust. Me.
May 29, 2012 at 11:09 pm
As creepy and wrong as this sounds, it pales in comparison to the horrific treatment of prisoners in the gulags or North Korea, most of whom have committed no crime at all, having only run afoul of the despotic government. Did you see the recent article at Catholic World Report by Brian O'Neel, "Abandon Hope, All You Who Enter Here"?
May 30, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Well, it might be less embarassing than be examined by a human guard and I'm sure the human guards would be happy to let that job go. It's amazing what prisoners hide on their persons and where.