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LoDo Towers leased two robots in 2022 to address crime in parking garages.

LoDoMus Prime and his sidekick Dave roam two downtown Denver parking garages every day, watching people park their cars and rush off to appointments in nearby office buildings.

Since LoDoMus Prime and Dave, two autonomous robots, have been deployed in two of Denver’s downtown parking garages, car thefts and vandalism have decreased by more than 70 percent.

LoDoMus Prime and his sidekick, Dave, roam two downtown Denver parking garages every day, watching people park their cars and rush off to appointments in nearby office buildings. If a person lingers too long, LoDoMus Prime or Dave will start a countdown: “Five, four, three, two, one.” Then the robots

Since LoDo Towers deployed the robots in its two garages on 17th Street, it has seen a more than 70% drop in car thefts and vandalism.

The robots went to work in the LoDo Towers’ two garages on 17th Street in October 2022 after building management recognized an increase in car break-ins, said Bethany Chang, a principal with CIM Group, the firm that manages the property.

Colorado has a draft rule that would impose oversight and transparency requirements on insurance companies that use big data about consumers or feed such data into predictive models and algorithms.

A draft rule would impose oversight and transparency requirements on insurance companies that use big data about consumers or feed such data into predictive models and algorithms.