Better put your clothes on! British Transport Police owns a $60,000 flying video-enabled robot!
Good to see our taxes are going towards worthy things, like supplying the British Transport Police with one of these $60,000 r/c flying robots.
Apparently the theft of metal on our British railways is a huge problem, so the Transport Police use these expensive Microdrones to target the thieves – with the bots’ squirting water at the perps. It’s not just any old water though, as supposedly the SmartWater helps track them, for further prosecution.
The two feet-wide device does contain an inbuilt infra-red camera and video, which sends it to operators up to 500 yards away, making the price more justified. Police using the bot for their wicked peeping-tom ways is a rumour entirely unconfirmed, although entirely possible.
(via BotJunkie)
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2 comments
Yeah
get a load of them £30000 devices
if they stop the criminal damage on our railways they’ll pay for themselves ten times over
I’d rather have BTP flying these buggers about and travel on a safe system
Big Brother is already watching you. your too late in your little crusade against these worthwhile tools
The irony would be in the thieves knocking the drone out of the sky with a well timed brick to the rotor and then dismantling 60 grands worth of metal alloy.
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