Just what we need — eight year olds carrying lethal weapons. What could possibly go wrong?

NNATURALLY, this form of protection is limited to legally licensed individuals.
As for dogs, certainly they can be trained to be protective, it is instinctive with them, mostly. And I was not even thinking about kids of any age, only adults. Many kids lack adequate judgement and experience regarding others. I always protected my kids when we were out. That did not require firearms, on my part.
BUT those attempting to break into my house may experience "harsh treatment."

 

The one that I saw in the youtube video has artificial intelligence. Not only it looks like a real puppy, it is quite more advanced than what I imagined. It has 'responsive movement'. Now, coming to your perpetrator question, what if the puppy is trained to identify dangerous situation like someone slapping, beating, touching inappropriately, trying to assault the kid etc.? What if it can detect overall violent behaviour?

As I said, pie-in-the-sky. What's "touching inappropriately"? If a grown man gives a young teenage girl a hug, is that touching inappropriately? What's "trying to assault"? If the kid is being chased by someone and the kid is trying desperately to avoid them, does that qualify? What is "overall violent behavior"?

 

As I said, pie-in-the-sky. What's "touching inappropriately"? If a grown man gives a young teenage girl a hug, is that touching inappropriately? What's "trying to assault"? If the kid is being chased by someone and the kid is trying desperately to avoid them, does that qualify? What is "overall violent behavior"?

OK. I admit that what is appropriate in one society can be inappropriate in another. In a Muslim society like mine, if a grown man gives a young teenage girl a hug, this will be considered inappropriate if the man is not her direct blood relative (like father, brother and so on). That's a broad discussion. However, some behaviors are universally unacceptable, right? Like grabbing someone's crotch, groping someone by her breasts and the list goes on. Doing or attempting to forceful penetration is also forbidden by the laws of all civilized nations. Yeah. I understand, now the biggest question is how to train the robot to detect these behaviours. Looks like I am looking for a needle in a haystack.

 

hi love,
It is your Society that requires the training to respect the rights of Women and treat them as equals, not with the naive idea of training robot dogs to deal with the problem.

As I posted earlier, terminate the proven offenders, this would send a clear message to anyone considering sexually assaulting an innocent person.

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Generally, any form of assault against anybody requires that nobody else is around. Thus an attention drawing LOUD sound would be a reasonable deterrent. By LOUD, I mean over 120 DEcibles, like perhaps 130 or 145dB. That level means REALLY LOUD!! A loud police car siren is perhaps 120 dB at ten feet. That is quite loud. So now you have a basis for understanding what I am describing as LOUD. Enough to attract attention 100 yards away (=about 105 meters)

 

Generally, any form of assault against anybody requires that nobody else is around. Thus an attention drawing LOUD sound would be a reasonable deterrent. By LOUD, I mean over 120 DEcibles, like perhaps 130 or 145dB. That level means REALLY LOUD!! A loud police car siren is perhaps 120 dB at ten feet. That is quite loud. So now you have a basis for understanding what I am describing as LOUD. Enough to attract attention 100 yards away (=about 105 meters)

Even if that's the approach that is taken (as opposed to having this robot dog bite someone), there is the huge problem of automatically detecting that this loud sound should be issued in the first place, and then preventing false alarms. How many times does this loud sound have to go off when no one is in danger before people stop using it, or paying attention to when they hear it from 100 yards (which is more like 91 meters) away?

 

Triggering a "loud sound" would not be automatic!! That would be at the protected individual's disgression. Automated systems are for protecting property, NOT individuals! Personal protection MUST be a user choice scheme!!

 

Triggering a "loud sound" would not be automatic!! That would be at the protected individual's disgression. Automated systems are for protecting property, NOT individuals! Personal protection MUST be a user choice scheme!!

Then that's irrelevant to the TS's topic since the TS has very clearly specified that they want an automatic system that does NOT rely on the person activating it.

 

Sometime in the future all humans will be micro chipped like pets so they can be tracked if they go missing and generally kept tabs on.

Already have that. It's called "Cell Phones".

If a grown man gives a young teenage girl a hug, is that touching inappropriately?

It is if it's unwanted.

As I posted earlier, terminate the proven offenders, this would send a clear message to anyone considering sexually assaulting an innocent person.

I disagree.

My phone has Siri. It shouldn't be too difficult to develop a program that a child can learn to use. Scream "HELP ME!" and the phone automatically calls the cops and sounds alarms to all phones within 2 miles along with the Childs name and exact location. But there's still time to disappear from the scene of attack. But even that won't stop predators. There's ways around everything. Like it's been said before - this is a Pie-In-The-Sky hope. At least it is for now. Perhaps in the future there will be technologies that can protect children and other victims of predation. Till then there's little point in this discussion.

 

Oh, and some people freeze up when threatened. It's a natural response that could give a predator an advantage. I once asked a girl if I could give her a kiss. She said OK but she was afraid if she said no I'd hurt her. I could tell she was scared so I declined to give her the kiss. Maybe I should have been put to death for that. Right Eric?

 

It is if it's unwanted.

That's the point! How is this automatic device (specifically, this robot dog that was being responded to) that the TS wants going to determine whether or not it is wanted?

 

It occurs to me that a self-driving car is a simple problem compared to what is being asked for here.