RoboticsMedium
Knightscope's Park Patrol Robot Ignored Bystander Pressing Emergency Button to Alert Police about Fight
- Occurred
- Oct 4, 2019
- Published
- Oct 10, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Knightscope K5 autonomous "police" robot patrolling Huntington Park, California failed to respond to an onlooker who attempted to activate its emergency alert button when a nearby fight broke out.
Developers
- Knightscope
Deployers
- Knightscope
Harmed parties
- Cogo Guebara
- Unnamed woman injured in Huntington Park fight near Knightscope robot
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Physical security robot failed to respond to emergency alert during a fight.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8