robots – names “Xavier” – are equipped with seven cameras that enable them to detect "undesirable social behaviour” such as people chaining bikes up where they shouldn’t, or groups gathering in defiance of Singapore’s strict anti-coronavirus social distancing rules.For example, when a small crowd gathered to watch a chess match between two elderly players Xavier rolled up to break it up.The robot instructed them to “please keep one-metre distancing, please keep to five persons per group,” as it scanned them with one of its seven cameras.Local Frannie Teo really isn’t sure Xavier is a good thing: ”It reminds me of Robocop," she said."It brings to mind a dystopian world of robots...
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