A company called KnightScope has made Robocop, but in the shape of an egg and without the pulse rifles. Take a look,

If you watch it for a few seconds, you'll notice the three robots patrolling outside the Microsoft building.

Look, I love robots. I was on robotics teams for almost my entire middle & high school life. But this? This really scares me.

For starters, anyone who has ever built a complex robot before knows robots are never perfect. They do stuff they shouldn't do, go an inch farther than they should have. Robotics is hard, but making something that needs to drive around the real world is even harder. Properly interacting with humans adds another layer of complexity many are still figuring out.

Now don’t get me wrong, training a human police officer is also hard work, and they are not perfect.

But unlike robots, humans can be made responsible for their mistakes.

Even though this robot is not armed, it can still make decisions that heavily impact someone's life.