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Officer Caring is the C.P.D.'s new ARES (Auxiliary Robotic Education System) robot. He will visit Cambridge schools to warn high school students against drug abuse, peer pressure, and drunk driving, and to lecture grammar school students about the use of seat belts and school bus safety. Officer Caring will also inform 4th. 5th and 6th graders about the dangers of drug abuse before they reach high school...
...robot's head also has room for a video camera. Bongiorno said robots with cameras have been used in a few cases to interview sexually exploited children who refused to discuss their experiences with adults. However, he said only Alaskan courts have admitted evidence gained in this manner...
Officer Caring is the first robot of his kind in New England. Bongiorno said other departments in New York, North Carolina, and Texas have found that robots can keep children's attention longer and that presentations at schools are more memorable for children when the speaker is a robot instead of a human police officer...
Paolillo first saw Officer Caring a year-and-a-half ago at a police chiefs' convention in Utah--and decided to recruit him for the force, said Bongiorno. He said Captain Henry Greene of the Juvenile Division joined the chief in raising the robot's $17,500 price from local contributors. The East Cambridge savings Bank came through with $15,000, and the Polaroid Foundation and the Mount Auburn Veterans of Foreign Wars supplied the rest of the money...
Sagdeyev's enthusiasm for robot probes, however, brings with it an inevitable tension: in the U.S.S.R., just as in the U.S., the unmanned and manned programs compete for budget dollars, and so far the manned missions have been the big winners. But, says Sagdeyev, "99% of what man can do in space can be done by robots." The statement irritates his comrades at Soviet mission control. "This crew has done 100 repair jobs," scoffs Victor Blagov, the deputy flight director, arguing that humans are needed to deal with unanticipated situations. Snaps Stepan Bogodyazh of Glavkosmos, the Soviet equivalent of NASA...