Massachusetts: A robot dog, known as Roscoe Who's the jackass that named him Roscoe instead of Robocop!?!?, was shot as a SWAT team dealt with a man barricaded in a home in the Hyannis section of Barnstable on March 6, police said. That standoff prompted local schools to be evacuated and took hours to resolve; it led to the arrest of 30-year-old Justin Moreira.
According to MSP, the dog, which was operated by a MSP bomb squad member, was deployed to “safely gather crucial intelligence and provide situational awareness of the suspect and the home's interior.”
While in the basement, the dog located the suspect, who then knocked it over and began going up the stairs to the ground floor. The dog was able to right itself and “when the suspect realized, with apparent surprise, that Roscoe was behind him on the stairs, he again knocked the robot over and then raised his rifle in the Roscoe's direction. The robot suddenly lost communications.”
The suspect then fired at another robotic platform deployed at the scene and eventually surrendered to SWAT team members after they deployed tear gas into the home.
Boston Dynamics "Spot Mini" - ca. $75,000. Not exactly the same configuration as Roscoe.
I guess Deus Ex is now
