GoBetween Robotics: A traffic stop robot to keep everyone safe


Published on May 1, 2019

I’m Reuben Brewer, a Senior Robotics Research Engineer in SRI International’s Advanced Technologies and Sciences Department (ATSD).

Here at SRI International, our goal is to invent a better future by collaborating on key research areas like space satellites, robotics in space, conversational AI, surgical AI, quantum technology, and more.

I’m here to show you my robot for making traffic stops safer for both police officers and motorists. Every year 16,915,140 drivers are pulled-over in traffic, 195,078 motorists have physical force used on them, 4,488 officers are assaulted, 89 of those motorists die, and 11 of those officers die. With such dangerous interactions between people, maybe it’s time to send a robot in between them, one that can’t hurt or be hurt. This prototype is a work in progress that I started in my garage and now work on at SRI international. It’s only part of the solution, but I hope one day it could save lives.

5 thoughts on “GoBetween Robotics: A traffic stop robot to keep everyone safe

  1. when the camera rolls up to your window, dont be there, place a fake picture of an empty drivers seat, or a mountain view , or a grizzly bear

    lol
    that’ll fck em up

    1. EOTS, I just knew you’d love this new device. It made me want to punch it. I wonder if it eats donuts.

      🙂
      .

      1. Lol
        What if you run?

        Like that Prius with all that crap hanging off of it is going to have a snowballs chance of keeping up? Lmfao
        Let alone how will it respond when we invoke our 5th to ignore the shit out of it ?

        Or better yet
        Grab the device and rip it from the arm , and take off with it , throw a strap around it and head out at full speed

        lol obviously not designed with Real American Nationals in mind , we would have a field day with this

  2. “I’m here to show you my robot for making traffic stops safer for both police officers and motorists.”

    Hell, I’d like to show YOU the hemp rope I’m ‘hanging’ on to explicitly to deal with commie traitors like you who insist on perpetuating the pig state in this country.

    But with any luck at all, those pigs you think deserve to be ‘safer’ will do me the favor of offing your stupid @ss.

  3. 16,915,140 violations of The Bill of Rights. From that many incursions, 11 pirates died. Astronomically safe job!!
    Now they want robots to keep them safer? How much overreach can they try to justify?
    After a short time, there will be legislation protecting robots like LBGTQWEERS, Jews, and anybody who is not a white male. “I hate robots” will get you 10 years in Federal Ass Pounding Prison for HATE SPEECH.
    They’re writing the sequel to 1984, as we live and breathe.

Join the Conversation

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


*