GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (GOSY)

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Yeah, a grade school project that does what no other navigation system can do.

SafePath can't run over little kids.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3686411/He-crying-like-crazy-300lb-mall-security-robot-used-catch-shoplifters-runs-one-year-old-boy.html

http://gizmodo.com/mall-suspends-security-robot-after-it-clobbered-a-toddl-1783662510

Interesting quote from above:

In response, the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California, is investigating the incident, and it has docked its robots until further notice. The company that developed the robot, Knightscope, called the incident a “freakish accident” and has issued a formal apology to the family.

“Our primary mission is to serve the public’s overall safety, and we take any circumstance that would compromise that mission very seriously,” said William Santana Li, Knightscope’s chief executive.

The company claims that the machine, a K5 unit equipped with nearly 30 sensors, should have registered a vibration if and when it ran over Harwin’s foot. The incident prompted Knightscope to file a field incident report—the first such report after 25,000 miles of total travel made by its robotic fleet. The company’s account of the incident varies a bit from that of the mother’s. Knightscope claims that Harwin ran backward “directly” into the machine, prompting the robot to stop, and that’s when the child fell.

Regardless of what happened, there’s no disputing that a child got hurt, even if it was a minor injury. Malls may find it cute and expedient to have robotic security guards roaming the corridors, but they clearly need to take account of these mechanical lumbering beasts which weigh 300 pounds and stand five feet tall.

A 300 pound robot has to run over someone's foot before they even expect it to do something? It's like a bull in a china shop - do you think the owner of this shop would let that robot roam free like this inside the shop? Yes - an early SafePath robot avoiding things before it runs them over, what a novel idea.

http://geckosystems.com/timeline/?year=2003&video=CoinShop-Display_avoid.mpg




SafePath can't run away and become so dangerous it has to be "put down".

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36547139


Tesla does its Beta testing on customers and they get killed - oops missed seeing that semi because it was white. GOSY did its Alpha testing on a beloved member of the family for months to make sure it was safe.


Tesla puts the responsibility for Beta testing a flawed system on its customers.

The Autopilot feature was engaged at the time, Tesla has said, but neither the automatic braking system nor Mr. Brown applied the brakes before the car hit the trailer at 65 miles an hour.

Despite that acknowledgment by the company, as the federal agency pushes for answers about the accident and whether the Autopilot system failed to work properly, Tesla officials continue to say that the technology is safe. They also say they have no plans to disable the feature, which is installed in about 70,000 Tesla cars on the road. Instead, they indicate that drivers may be to blame for misusing Autopilot.

In an interview, a Tesla executive said the company believed that the system was safe as designed, but that consumers needed to realize that misusing Autopilot “could mean the difference between life and death.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/business/tesla-autopilot-fatal-crash-investigation.html?_r=0