SOMA Robotics – Security Robots to Save Lives

Let me tell you a story Ags. One about designing security robot security systems to help prevent, or at least mitigate, mass shooter situations. The story of SOMA Robotics – Security Robots to Help Defend the Public using Non-Lethal methods.

I don’t think there are any “triggers” in here, but I recognize it is a sensitive topic so please be aware. Our goal was to use non-lethal means to prevent, or at least mitigate the impact of mass shootings on soft targets. So we invented a security system that would use AI and ML to do just that.

Startup SOMA Robotics to build security robots – rendering by Leane Luce, TheFashionRobot!

 

In the beginning, we were all aware of shootings at “soft targets.” But we got desensitized. Then in June of 2016 I was talking to a relative who knew people who IN the Pulse Nightclub in 2016. Although our friends were unhurt, it made the issue more personal to me. Still I felt helpless.

This blog post is the beginning of the SOMA Robotics story, which while eventually we did not prevail, we do believe in the future for non-lethal security robots to help the innocent. More to follow. But let’s start with an image of the two inventors who originally came up with the concept at DefCon in Las Vegas.

SOMA Robotics ROS security robot proptotype 2 during testing