RoboCop on a Budget: Ohio Fires Police Patrol Bot (2 Photos + 2 Videos)
The career of history's laziest law enforcement officer has come to a quiet, inglorious end in Ohio. 
The Dublin Police Department has retired its robotic patrol unit, dubbed DubBot. For nearly a full year, the metallic "lawman" faithfully did absolutely nothing.
The experiment cost taxpayers $67,500, and the only thing the bot actually protected the city from was surplus budget money.
On paper, DubBot looked like a tech breakthrough and the scourge of local crime. After all, it was a five-foot-tall, 400-pound behemoth equipped with 360-degree cameras, thermal imaging, and an emergency panic button for citizens. 
A year ago, this marvel of engineering was deployed to the city's most "dangerous" secured facility: the central parking garage. The cyborg was supposed to scan license plates of stolen cars, spot fights, and call for backup. But reality proved much harsher.
Throughout its entire time on patrol, the robot didn't just fail to catch a thief—it didn't even record a single minor fender-bender or scratch on residents' cars. The only thing DubBot turned out to be good for was selfies. Local kids and bloggers happily took photos with the expensive toy while actual cops caught real criminals. In short, the department reviewed the robot's "service record," tallied the losses, and officially scrapped the program, sending DubBot back to the manufacturer.
A few years ago, a similar robot in Washington "committed suicide" by rolling down some stairs into a fountain, while another robot in California was beaten up by homeless individuals while trying to call the police.
Ohio police officers admitted that a real patrol officer with a K-9 handles the job far better than a 400-pound rolling thermos with cameras.
