Swiss startup puts a new spin on the security robot market

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Wheeled and 'eyebrowed,' the Ascento Guard might just be the best-looking security guard robot on the market. Check it out.

, the company has grown to ten employees. Ascento is also reportedly seeking new hires for its sales and operations team to expand its fleet of Ascento Guards.

Currently, the global security industry has a staff turnover rate as high as 47% each year, according to Alessandro Morra, co-founder and CEO of Ascento. “Labor shortages mean a lack of qualified personnel available to do the work which involves long shifts, during anti-social hours or in bad weather,” explained Morra in. “The traditional approach is to use either people or fixed installed cameras… The Ascento Guard provides the best of both worlds," he added.

Since the company released videos of its new robot on the 12th of September , Morra explains that Ascento has since received “hundreds of requests” to use the robots for different industries. “With our technology, we could do substantially more economically and more thoroughly, as machines don’t get tired of repetitive tasks,” Morra added.

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