Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web. More than 60 bomb squads and swat teams in the us and canada are now using spot, according to previously unreported data shared by boston dynamics with bloomberg news. As seen in danvers on monday, boston dynamics’ spot the robot dog was deployed by massachusetts state police at the shooting scene where a suspect was barricaded. Boston dynamics says it is taking roscoe back to study how well he stood up to the gunfire But they will give the massachusetts state police a replacement robot. The bomb squad acquired spot with the assistance of boston dynamics partner radeco, a custom robotics outfitter based in connecticut that serves government and law enforcement agencies across the country.
Spot has a range of different motions, including walking, sitting, and even crawling.
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