Geek.com on Robot Cops in China using Face Recognition

Geek.com reports that China is deploying police robots that can detect fires, monitor pedestrian traffic levels and offer guidance to citizens in the course of a work day. These robots also use face recognition to screen the public for criminals on the lamb.  Hopefully, false positives are very low, as next steps toward our evolving, sorta Orwellian world continue.  Will similar robots be deployed in Western countries?