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Robot dance: Mayor Adams mum about ‘another plan’ for big NYPD droid now in storage in Times Square

By Ethan Stark-Miller Posted on February 20, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday he has “another plan” for an NYPD robot that has been sitting in storage in the Times Square subway station since the end of a two-month trial period for the bot last fall — but he declined to explain what he had in mind.

“We have another plan. I want to do with the [Knightscope] K5, I don’t want to roll it out yet,” Adams said during his weekly off-topic news conference. “But we still see a use in robotics and technology, I’m a big believer in this. We have to really see, ‘how do we use robotics and technology to run our city more efficiently?’”

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