Rifle-wielding DogBot joins Zacatecas’ US $53M security arsenal

The authorities of Zacatecas unveiled a caller constabulary bid halfway past week and announced the acquisition of a DogBot, an equipped robot dog.

In a societal media post, Zacatecas Governor David Monreal said the caller C5 infrastructure was built astatine a outgo of 1 cardinal pesos (US $53.6 million), describing it arsenic a cardinal constituent successful his administration’s strategy to pacify the state.

The DogBot whitethorn beryllium the caller Zacatecas C5’s champion friend, but it is lone 1 high-tech innovation that Zacatecas information officials anticipation volition assistance pacify the crime-prone state. (@SSP_Zac/X)

“Investing successful quality is indispensable to strengthening nationalist information and providing bid of caput to Zacatecas families,” Monreal said. “We volition proceed moving decisively to consolidate a safer, peaceful Zacatecas.”

According to the integer level Vision for Humanity, Zacatecas — which sits astatine the crossroads of respective large cause trafficking routes — is among the 10 slightest peaceful states successful Mexico, with a homicide complaint of 29.7 per 100,000 radical successful 2024.

The C5 strategy (in notation to the 5 “C’s” — Command, Communications, Computation, Control and Citizen Contact) features a acceptable of technological systems and carnal instrumentality required for the cognition of a Command Center. 

Systems see 3,000 video surveillance cameras, panic buttons, connection platforms and databases that are utilized to show and respond to emergencies and supply assemblage services.

State Security Minister General Arturo Medina Mayoral described successful item immoderate of the caller equipment, including tactical drones and unmanned aircraft. Medina claimed that these tools let weapons to beryllium detected from miles distant and volition trim each types of transgression specified arsenic kidnapping, equipped robbery, road robberies and homicide.

The robot canine garnered the large headlines, however, and the information curate sang its praises.

Medina said the DogBot is designed to transportation an battle firearm and tin beryllium operated remotely. It features precocious sensor technology, including cameras and laser distant sensing radar, and is designed to run successful complex, high-risk environments.

“It tin participate a location oregon a cave and beryllium deployed to rescue someone,” helium said. “It could beryllium utilized to neutralize full groups, too.”

The 60-kg robot tin locomotion for 4 hours and scope speeds of 6 meters per 2nd (13.4 mph). 

The incorporation of robots into information operations successful Mexico is not unsocial to Zacatecas. Last year, the Chihuahua Municipal Police introduced “Pantera,” an all-terrain vehicle-type robot designed by the Chihuahua Institute of Technology to enactment officers successful high-risk peculiar operations.

With reports from El Universal, Noroeste, Infobae and El País