In prison, South Korean robot guards will

Prison authorities in South Korea are going to use mechanical guards to facilitate the work of correctional officers.
Robot guards are androids traditional appearance: body, head and four-wheel base. Their height is 150 cm, weight - 70 kg. No hands no longer needed: the responsibility of the device is charged with brokering talks between the prisoners and guards, and surveillance behavioral abnormalities convicts, such as cruelty and violence, or suicide attempts. But it is enough to video cameras and sensors, according to compulenta. ru.
The project is worth 1 billion. out (863 thousand. dollars), leads the research group of Asian Forum for Corrections. Its director and head professor at the University of Gyeonggi Lee Pak- chul says that robots released from prison staff, the check routine, especially at night.
Now scientists are engaged in improving the appearance of cars, so they do not look scary, because their mission is not in the control and punishment, and to help people in jail to adjust to their time (and for some people and permanent ) habitat.
According to the South Korean Ministry of Justice, the first artificial trio of guards will travel around the corridors of the prison in the city of Pohang in March 2012.