[toomuchtodo]

Physical security. On a five year depreciation schedule, even assuming multiple units for continuity, you’re ahead of labor costs in certain areas.

I could also see Royal Caribbean buying them as novelties to go along with their robotic bartenders on their oasis class ships.

[0xffff2]

Did Royal Caribbean ever get the robotic bartenders to actually work? When I got to see one in action several years ago it spent far more time either outright down or in a half broken state where it messed up orders than it did actually working. Not to mention it being much slower than a human bartender when it was operational.

[toomuchtodo]

They are a maintenance nightmare (a friend works there).

[nwienert]

Except someone would try to steal/destroy it and it couldn’t do anything, so not really. Maybe in a decade or two.

[informatimago]

Just mount a remote controlled weapon for self defence! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU

[Aunche]

A security guard that gets paid $15 an hour can't do anything but call the police either.

[smabie]

I mean, they often have guns. So they could do something if really necessary.

[def8cefe]

Depends on the country and what they're guarding. Most places you can only fire on people to protect humans and not property so if Spot is the only one there it won't matter anyway.

Plus it could probably kick the shit out of someone if the software allowed it.