Robotic police dog shot multiple times, credited with avoiding potential bloodshed

[Phoenix Fields 2,714]

A robotic dog is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home.

The robotic dog named Roscoe was part of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and deployed on March 6 in a Barnstable house after police were fired upon. Police sent in two other robots often used for bomb disposal into the house to find the suspect along with the robotic dog.

Controlled remotely by state troopers, it first checked the two main floors before finding someone in the basement. The person, armed with a rifle, twice knocked over the robotic dog before shooting it three times and disabling its communication.

The person then shot at one of the other robots and an outdoor swimming pool before police deployed tear gas and arrested them.

“The incident provided a stark example of the benefits of mobile platforms capable of opening doors and ascending stairs in tactical missions involving armed suspects,” state police said in a statement. “In addition to providing critically important room clearance and situational awareness capabilities, the insertion of Roscoe into the suspect residence prevented the need, at that stage of response, from inserting human operators, and may have prevented a police officer from being involved in an exchange of gunfire.”

Boston Dynamics, the company that made the robotic dog known as a SPOT robot, said in a statement that it was the first time one of them had been shot.

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[PartySick 172,545]

Can you imagine hiding out in a home expecting the police to get you but around the corner comes iRobot's pooch?

[Economy 52,860]

42 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Can you imagine hiding out in a home expecting the police to get you but around the corner comes iRobot's pooch?

Reminds me of aunt fanny (also known as aunt booty). She was so clumsy that robot

 

 

 That scene at the end

 

[garbage day 11,817]

I wonder what their initial crime was... why did the police show up and get fired upon?

[Schizophonic 7,015]

18 minutes ago, hieronymus said:

I wonder what their initial crime was... why did the police show up and get fired upon?

Maybe the neighbors complained about too loud music at nighttime.

bang bang.

[weed 78,959]

$300k to repair damages or something insane I'm sure

[Tyler1992 2,340]

These things creep me right out after the Black Mirror episode with advanced versions of these.

I can just imagine 30 years from now walking down the street, rounding the corner to see one of these things scooting towards me like a spider-dog. Yuk.

[RebeldeFaith 5,759]

Straight out of RoboCop. I can imagine the face of the man when he saw the robot walking in. 

[BLACKOUTbritney 22,369]

5 hours ago, Economy said:

Reminds me of aunt fanny (also known as aunt booty). She was so clumsy that robot

 

 

 That scene at the end

 

Why that thumbnail look like the skinny robot is hitting it from the back 

[Economy 52,860]

6 hours ago, BLACKOUTbritney said:

Why that thumbnail look like the skinny robot is hitting it from the back 

His name is Rodney Copperbottom

 

And omg i did not notice what that looked like until u said it

[Helxig 45,364]

Remember how during the BLM protests the police came out and sprayed people with water and used sound canons to literally harm and deafen people? I bet they wish they had these at their disposal