By Herman Lai, posted May 14, 2012 at 3:49 PM, 1,424 views,

RoboCop Rip-off Being Used As Video Surveillance Camera On the Street

If you have watched an American science fiction film called “RoboCop“, then you are probably shocked right now. There isn’t a human inside the armor, but some cables that connected to police station. What that does is to monitor some regions for security purpose. They are located in Kunming, the place where the fake Apple store was first discovered.

The robot is nearly 2 meters tall and each of them costs up to 20,000 yuan ($3170). There’s a red emergency button on the robot, which would call 110 (China’s emergency telephone number) and would turn on the alarm of the robot. Allegedly, the China’s RoboCop has successfully reduced crimes in Kunming by 68.8%. But on the other hand, the system has often received false calls due to the public and the children’s curiosity.

Source: Xinhua