{"id":8873,"date":"2026-08-20T03:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8873"},"modified":"2026-08-20T03:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:04:45","slug":"autonomous-mobile-security-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8873","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous mobile security robot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Autonomous mobile security robot introduced by Ritsumeikan University \u2014 Capable of monitoring via a 360\u2010degree camera and can be used to detect obstacles and people<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m at <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/replaying-japan-2026\/home\">Replaying Japan 2026<\/a>, a conference. on Japanese game culture being held at the Ibaraki campus of Ritsumeikan University. They have these pickle shaped &#8220;security&#8221; robots rolling slowly down the halls. I searched for something about these devices and found this: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sj.jst.go.jp\/news\/202305\/n0529-03k.html\">Autonomous mobile security robot introduced by Ritsumeikan University \u2014 Capable of monitoring via a 360\u2010degree camera and can be used to detect obstacles and people<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just what will they do with the data? What could they do? How would lidar and video lead to security improvements or is this security theatre?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/n0529-03k-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autonomous mobile security robot introduced by Ritsumeikan University \u2014 Capable of monitoring via a 360\u2010degree camera and can be used to detect obstacles and people I&#8217;m at Replaying Japan 2026, a conference. on Japanese game culture being held at the Ibaraki campus of Ritsumeikan University. They have these pickle shaped &#8220;security&#8221; robots rolling slowly down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autonomous mobile security robot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,26,58,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-education-and-administration","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8878,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions\/8878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}