More than a year after Kerala Police inducted India’s first humanoid ‘Robocop’ (KP-Bot) into its fleet, Chennai Police has deployed a multi-functional robot called Robot Cop LD v5.0 to keep an eye on residents in COVID-19 containment areas in the city. However, unlike the Kerala Police model, the Chennai Police robot is not a humanoid and basically looks like an oversized box on wheels.
The robot has been deployed in Meenambal Puram Street, a coronavirus hotspot in the Mylapore neighborhood with more than 11 documented cases. It is being used to monitor residents in containment zones, said R. Sudhakar, the Joint Commissioner of Chennai Police (East). According to him: “In containment zones, we can’t enter and (monitor) interior areas. Our personnel (have) to stand outside barricaded areas. Drones (are) used to make announcements (for people in these neighborhoods)”.
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