• Gizmodo, Friday, October 21, 2016 9:19 AM

According to Amazon, the cop of the future won’t just be a robot, it will be one that fits in the palm of your hand. On Tuesday, the retail giant was granted a patent for a miniature, voice-controlled “unmanned aerial vehicle assistant” to be used by everyone from officers making traffic stops to shoppers just trying to figure out where they parked their cars. According to the patent first discovered by GeekWire, off-board processing could be used to greatly reduce the size of the assistants compared to today’s drones while greatly increasing their capabilities. 

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