Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like “Uptown Funk.” But beyond its playful antics, Spot’s ability to climb stairs and open doors signals a potentially controversial role as a policing tool.
A member of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, remotely controls a Boston Dynamics "Spot" canine-like robot at the 2025 Hannover Messe industrial trade fair March 31 in Hanover, Germany.
A police officer holds a police dog from the RAID French national police unit specialized in the search of explosives as it inspects a Boston Dynamics dog robot in the CMA CGM Tangram innovation and formation campus May 8, 2024, in Marseille, southern France.
Boston Dynamics experimental robots are displayed during the CoHoMa Challenge event in a French Gendarmerie national military training camp May 6 in Beynes west of Paris.
A member of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, remotely controls a Boston Dynamics "Spot" canine-like robot at the 2025 Hannover Messe industrial trade fair March 31 in Hanover, Germany.
A police officer holds a police dog from the RAID French national police unit specialized in the search of explosives as it inspects a Boston Dynamics dog robot in the CMA CGM Tangram innovation and formation campus May 8, 2024, in Marseille, southern France.
Boston Dynamics experimental robots are displayed during the CoHoMa Challenge event in a French Gendarmerie national military training camp May 6 in Beynes west of Paris.
