Criminals in Eastern China will now find themselves face-to-face with mechanical authorities after streets are now being pattrolled by rolling robots that can chase down suspects — and, most likely, beat them in a fight.
As the South China Morning Post reports, cops in the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province have lately been flanked by the spherical robot that looks a bit like a militarized version of the cutesy BB-8 robot in "Star Wars."