Robots began to patrol streets during the quarantine

At the beginning of April, 2020 in Tunisia the police robot developed by Enova Robotics company began to patrol streets. In the country will develop a national quarantine, and all should remain in the houses, but some people should go to work or to leave for purchase of necessities. Robots watch observance of rules of a quarantine and, having detected the person on desert streets, approach it and ask in what case. The stopped person should show the identity certificate and other documents on the camera of the robot that the police officers controlling it could check them.

In Tunisia the police robot developed by Enova Robotics company began to patrol streets

Though some welcomed implementation of robots, many considered PGuard "too slow". However on social networks already appeared several videos showing how PGuard stops people on the street and explains rules of a quarantine. The remotely operated four-wheel PGuard robot is equipped with the thermal imaging camera and a lidar (technology of detection of light and determination of range) which works as the radar, but uses light instead of radio waves.

So far it is not clear how many police robots for observation called by PGuard already took to the streets of Tunisia according to the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Enova Robotics producer did not begin to answer this question and also refused to disclose PGuard price. Before the whole world was covered by COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, private firms were clients of Enova Robotics generally, the sales director Radouhane Ben Farhat reported. Now the Enova Robotics company which headquarters is in the coastal city of Sus makes robots for the government: such as PGuard and robots for diagnostics. They are capable to carry out preliminary visual diagnostics and use different sensors for measurement of a number of indicators. One of them is already sent to the Tunisian hospital to the aid of doctors.^[1]

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