Mayor Eric Adams joined top FDNY and NYPD brass at the Fire Academy on Randall’s Island on Tuesday to showcase new technology the department called “instrumental” when responding to the garage collapse in the Financial District last week.
“This is not playtime, this is real-time,” Hizzoner charged, rebuking accusations that the robotic surveillance devices like “Digidog” are nothing but overpriced toys.
While social justice advocates across the city were enraged when the mayor announced the robot would become part of the NYPD’s arsenal, Adams said Tuesday that the tech has already helped save first responder lives — referring, as one example, to last week’s parking garage collapse in Lower Manhattan.