A team led by University of Alberta electrical engineering student Megnath Ramesh took home three top prizes at a recent 24-hour hackathon in San Francisco. The winning creation: a roving security robot that can identify intruders using facial recognition. The robot is called Paul-E Blart, based off of the movie ‘Paul Blart, Mall Cop’. Ramesh and his team presented this robot as a way to show the technology can be used to solve social problems like violent crime. Since the robot is built with cheap sensors, Ramesh says it could easily be made into a consumer product. He says Paul-E Blart is currently just a 24-hour project from a hackathon, but he would love to continue working on it in the future.