Donald Trump’s robodogs
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Robot security dogs have been spotted at Mar-A-Lago, the Florida home of US president-elect Donald Trump. Who are behind them, and what security services do they offer? Also on the programme, we hear about one phone company’s plan to waste phone scammers’ time. And the startup using AI to provide loans to people without a credit history.
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Presenter: Zoe Kleinman Producer: Imran Rahman-Jones Editor: Monica Soriano
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| 0:31.2 | In about two months' time, US President-elect Donald Trump will be moving house to Washington, D.C. |
| 0:39.2 | But while he waits to pack his boxes for the White House, he's spending much of his time in his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. |
| 0:44.8 | Last week, some new additions to his security team was spotted there. |
| 0:48.8 | They're pretty small. They're about, I would say, to a little bit higher than your knee. |
| 0:55.9 | And they have four legs and they have a camera on what you would think of as the head. |
| 1:04.5 | Our North America tech correspondent, Lily Jamali, will be finding out more about them in a minute. |
| 1:09.4 | Also on the program, meet my new friend Daisy. |
| 1:12.5 | Could you remind me what my bank account number is? I seem to have misplaced it. |
| 1:19.8 | Daisy is a 78-year-old woman from the south of England. Except she's not real. The voice you just heard is an AI-powered bot |
| 1:27.6 | created by a phone company in the UK |
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