Security cameras can and do point out into the street, adjacent properties etc. And pretty much every cellphone has a camera; I don't see a big qualitative difference between legs and wheels.
The point is that the company gave the footage to LAPD because it specifically concerned the theft of their property. Might they also give footage if an unrelated crime that happened in the vicinity of their robots? Perhaps, but that's not what happened here.
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Security cameras can and do point out into the street, adjacent properties etc. And pretty much every cellphone has a camera; I don't see a big qualitative difference between legs and wheels.
The point is that the company gave the footage to LAPD because it specifically concerned the theft of their property. Might they also give footage if an unrelated crime that happened in the vicinity of their robots? Perhaps, but that's not what happened here.