One application of robotics is to assist or replace humans in performing tasks and routines, which can be seen in logistics warehouses, assembly lines or even hospitals. Several months ago, South Korea announced its intention to deploy robots in its prisons to monitor inmates, the guards did keep the night watch and detect any attempted suicide. The idea was to start a pilot this spring and evaluate the use of robots, which the country is already doing.



The robot, which acts as a watchdog of prisons, a bit far from the initial sketch but its functions respond to the planned scheme: to monitor the corridors of the prison (ridding the prison officials have to do the night watch), analyze the language body of prisoners (to assess their mood and prevent suicides) and send all the data captured by its cameras and sensors to the control center of the prison for analysis and interpretation.

With multiple cameras, including a 3D camera, speakers, microphone and analysis software that is equipped with this new generation watcher, the robot can "talk" to prisoners (by projecting the voice of the control equipment prison), send images to the control center that also can control the robot using mobile devices, detect any outbreak of fire and send an alarm or prevent and detect any aggression against the inmates.


The prison system in Korea for now, is evaluating the use of the robot in a real environment to see if they could deploy throughout the prison system, yet are already thinking about possible improvements and developments of this prison guard so you can make for example, body searches.

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