A robot dog is being credited with averting bloodshed and taking bullets while being used by Massachusetts State Police troopers during a house barricade incident this month.
This robot dog by Ghost Robotics was on display at an expo this week at Modern Day Marine in Washington, D.C. Local police called in the troopers, including a bomb squad, after an armed man barricaded himself inside the house and shot at officers with a rifle, MSP said in a release Wednesday., 30. He is accused of holding his mother, unnamed by authorities, at knifepoint. Police were able to evacuate her and other family members from the home, leaving Mr.
“Roscoe … prevented the need, at that stage of response, from inserting human operators or a real dog, and may have prevented a police officer or K-9 partner from being involved in an exchange of gunfire,” MSP wrote.
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