A four-legged “robot dog” is the newest member of the Los Angeles Police Department after the City Council voted 8-4 to approve its acquisition on Tuesday. The robot - a quadruped unmanned ...

The Space Force has a robot dog that hunts down dangerous material. And yes, it is apparently named after “Chappie,” the 2015 Neil Blomkamp-directed science-fiction movie where a police robot ...

Around the country, police have used robots over the past decade to communicate with barricaded suspects, enter potentially dangerous spaces and, in rare cases, for deadly force. Dallas police ...

Portland area police agencies now have a $150,000 robot “dog” at their disposal for bomb disposal, hostage situations and other scenarios that could be too dangerous to send a human.

Members of a special section of the Metropolitan Police Department ... the tile floors. The robot dog has only been deployed on a handful of missions since joining the force, Kirkegard said.

While the introduction of Colorado's first-ever robotic police dog, named "Spot," has garnered attention this week, it has also raised concerns, particularly from experts in robotics and ethics.

However, the officer in question is not a human or even a canine, but rather “Roscoe,” the police’s specialized robot dog created by Boston Dynamics. In a Facebook post on Wednesday ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A new type of “K-9″ is joining the Portland Police Bureau. But it’s not like any other dog you’ve likely seen. “Spot” the four-legged robot is manufactured by ...