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‘Security robots’ may guard HQ2

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) wants to keep its second headquarters safe. And it’s looking at a variety of methods like incognito barricades, a police presence on the campus, external facing cameras, and, oh yeah, “security robots.”

That’s according to some documents and emails Amazon and Arlington exchanged over the course of several months. Amazon did not get back to me on what kind of robots they had in mind patrolling their Crystal City and Pentagon City properties. But we know the company, just last year, secured a patent for an autonomous ground vehicle that could escort college students across a college campus. This, pictured above, could be what the company has in mind.

An Arlington official who attended these meetings was told “security robots” were just part of brainstorming sessions the company and county held and nothing was yet settled. I hope to live long enough to see crime fighting machines like the ED-209 from “Robocop” walking around. Anyway, let’s get to the other…

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Sonic Drive-In to open its first restaurant in Northern Virginia’s I-95 corridor

Fast-food chain Sonic Drive-In has filed plans to build a new restaurant in Prince William County, its first outpost along the Interstate 95 corridor in Northern Virginia. The 1,400-square-foot restaurant, with two drive-thru lanes, 12 pull-up ordering stalls and a dining patio, will be located at 4115 Talon Drive in Dumfries, part of the Barracks Row at Quantico commercial development less than a mile northwest of the I-95 interchange at state Route 234. The location “will constitute a flagship Sonic design that will serve as a benchmark for future restaurant drive-thru development,” according to a written narrative accompanying the application, filed by Noah Klein of Venable LLP.
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