Wearable robots for personal security

Honda's prototype Ropot is a "traffic-safety advice robot that attaches to the straps of a young child's backpack." Meant to augment children's narrower field of view and lack of familiarity with traffic hazards, the computer vision-enabled device detects risks and buzzes to provide safety alerts to wearers upon arrival at a crosswalk or detecting an approaching vehicle.

This points towards a future, however, where all ages employ wearable, robotic prosethics for personal security. Today we live in a world where surveillance cameras watch over us, and people increasingly monitor and record each other with mobiles. As we begin to augment ourselves with robotic armatures that take this even further (and perhaps act on these alerts?), will they become important mediators of interactions between people in public space?