“It was all about the property,” says one former resident, who left the complex in 2020. On Halloween, management covered her in spider-web stickers. In addition to her roving security responsibilities, LeFrak management wrote on Facebook in October of that year that Rosie would be “programmed to engage in helpful interactions, such as directions to each of the buildings or amenities!!” though tenants said they never heard her say much more than “Hello!” At Christmas, she was dressed up as Mrs. Along with a new pool, soccer field, playground, and park for the planned community of twenty towers in Corona, Queens, the complex’s 15,000 tenants also got Rosie.
Knightscope told the New York Times her basic cost structure was $7 an hour, or about $61,000 a year. LeFrak City rolled out their K5 in 2017 as part of a $70 million renovation. “She would get stuck if she was surrounded by a bunch of little kids,” says one tenant.
But if you ask tenants at LeFrak City, who lived alongside their own Knightscope K5 for the better part of two years, the robot - which management named Rosie - was really just a slow-moving Ring camera. “Hashtag GSD.”) The general idea is that using this particular bot to patrol Times Square and the subway below will keep New Yorkers safe - offering “real-time situational awareness” and “physical crime deterrence,” according to Madrey. (“We are here to get stuff done,” the robot told the mayor. The K5 can travel up to three miles an hour, has 360-degree HD recording capabilities, and talks. It’s “similar to like a Roomba,” Jeffrey Madrey, the NYPD’s chief of department, said earlier this month while introducing the new autonomous fleet alongside the mayor. But the K5, an “autonomous security robot” made by a California tech-company called Knightscope, comes across like a child-size marshmallow that sort of glides. The four-legged “Digidog” from Boston Dynamics prowls with an unsettlingly insect-like crawl. The robot egg looks friendlier than the robot dog. Photo-Illustration: by Curbed Photos Getty Images
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