Tag: security robots
John Wilkes Bot, or can’t someone else do it?
July 10, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
I feel pretty drained by the 4th of July, but in a good way all things considered. What better way to celebrate our nation's independence than that most American form of entertainment, explosions.
Speaking of things that are inherently and exclusively American in nature that I could not escape in the news cycle this week: ammunition vending machines.
I cannot speak to how long this has been “a thing,” but I can tell you the concept of just such a machine was played...
Dean Drako acquires Cobalt AI
June 4, 2024SSN Staff
FREMONT, Calif., and AUSTIN, Texas — Dean Drako, president and CEO of Eagle Eye Networks, IC Manage, and Drako Motors, announced his acquisition of Cobalt AI (formerly Cobalt Robotics).
As Cobalt’s owner, Drako will serve as the company’s chairman, while Ken Wolff, Cobalt’s CEO, will continue leading the company. Cobalt AI will operate as an independent company with its current management team and entire staff.
Cobalt is known as a provider of AI alarm filtering, remote...
SSN News Poll examines security solutions to retail crimes
December 18, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Security Systems News (SSN) asked readers about retail security, and their responses reflect changing attitudes toward current security trends.
Our first poll question asked readers if robotic security guards (i.e. Astro and Knightscope) are the future of retail security or if traditional human guards were superior. Absolutely no reader indicated that they believe that robots will be the endgame for retail security,...
Several hotels and a Washington pre-K school secure contracts with Knightscope
October 13, 2023SSN Staff
MOUNTAINVIEW, Calif. – Autonomous security robots guard company Knightscope has garnered several contracts this month in the hospitality and education industries.
On Oct. 11 the company announced that it had sold its K5 Autonomous Security Robot (ASR) to a pair of hotels in Portland, Ore. The robots will be utilized to patrol the parking areas of the hotel, and Knightscope noted that security in hospitality encompasses a hotel’s buildings and grounds, including guests, employees,...
Banking group orders ROSA bots from RAD
May 8, 2023SSN Staff
DETROIT – Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD) a subsidiary of Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions, Inc., (AITX) have received an order for two ROSA security robots.
The order comes from a major US regional banking group that has over 1,000 branches and more than $150 billion in assets, and marks RAD’s first deployment in the financial and marketing sector. The security devices will be deployed at a pair of urban branches of the bank in the Midwest. RAD said they’ll be positioned...