GERMANY: A robotic dog has successfully prevented railway graffiti artists in Germany. The German rail operator, Deutsche Bahn has hired a high-tech robotic dog to stop its trains from being covered in graffiti. The dog’s name is Spot. It has a top speed of 7 km an hour.
It transmits live footage of graffiti sprayers to the railway company’s security staff. It has patrolled depots in Munich for a month and has three cameras and is packed with artificial intelligence with the mission to detect “unauthorised personnel or other irregularities”. After the month-long trial there wasn’t a single item of graffiti in the areas where it had patrolled.
Although, a spokesperson for the railway company said that “Spot needs further training and must be technically expanded”. This is an expensive project costing tens of thousands of euros but it’s much cheaper than removing graffiti from trains by hand.
A further strategy to deter graffiti-sprayers is to remove carriages sprayed by them on the same day with the intention of removing any reward for the graffiti artist.
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Source: The Times. Thank You.
