Sandy could not believe the headline: college students at Alvernia University in Reading, PA are training two robot dogs — named Frankie and Francine — to help scan campus computer networks for cyberthreats. A cybersecurity major is building a Raspberry Pi rig for each robot dog so they can eventually go into unsafe or hard-to-reach spaces and sniff out digital danger.
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Two Robot Dogs Are Training to Fight Campus Cybercrime
As first reported by CBS News Philadelphia, Alvernia University students built tiny computer brains for Frankie and Francine so the robot dogs can scan for network threats and reach spaces humans can’t easily fit into — a feel-good, only-in-Pennsylvania tech story with a fun visual hook.
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Source: CBS News Philadelphia
