I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
Local PD can barely afford another dog.
It will become a parking ticket writing robot if we get one in Philly.
Very good application for terrorist incidents, or where you’re looking for booby traps. A robot that will easily open a closed door is a major safety factor for officers.
But can Spot absorb a slapshot?
So, the first robot has been named “Spot” and not “Hal” ...
Easier for the Gun Grabbers to disarm the Population without fear. They should name the first one Red Flag.
re: “The newly obtained documents, first reported by Ally Jarmanning at WBUR in Boston, include emails and contracts that shed some light on how police departments of the future may use robots to engage suspects without putting human police in harm’s way.”
ALREADY been done; the perp who killed a number of poh-leece officers in Dallas back in 2016 was “delivered” a small bomb by a wheeled robot that ‘took him out’ (as the perp was ‘holed up’ in a building downtown) ...
Is Boston Dynamics owned by Sarah Jane Smith? Just wondering...
“I not shoot you. I only stab you and you go to sleep.”
—Chappie