Massachusetts: robotic police dog shot and credited with averting bloodshed

Robotic dog, controlled remotely by state troopers, deployed in house to locate person and found someone armed in basement

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 6 March 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.