, which invests millions of dollars into mental health services and school security.
The robot also can confront intruders, although it is not armed, according to the Journal. It has a speaker system that can allow a remote security team to speak to an intruder. "As you know, sometimes we're limited on human resources to be out and they also need breaks and lunches and so forth, so the robots are going to help us supplement the downtime for our regular staff," Salbidrez told the news station.
The robots can be used to teach coding, but they can also take more proactive actions, such as pointing a laser beam or flashing a light to distract the intruder, Stokes wrote in an email to Insider.