The NYPD’s Robocop
If there’s one thing New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams loves more than taking allegedly illegal donations from the Turkish government, it’s the NYPD. Adams is a former police captain, and he’s fond of giving the cops astronomically expensive new toys.
That includes robot dogs, and, most recently, a machine called K5, a 400-pound, 5-foot-3 robocop that looks like some kind of busted R2-D2. The robot patrols the Times Square subway station at night. Imagine getting switched on for the first time to learn not only that you’re a cop, but that you’re going to spend the rest of your life in Times Square. K5 is lucky robots don’t have feelings.
