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BOSTON — A robot dog took bullets during a tense, armed barricade situation on Cape Cod earlier this month, and police say the droid’s deployment helped to prevent injuries to
The robot, manufactured by a Massachusetts company, was deployed during an armed standoff in Barnstable.
With assistance from a Massachusetts State Police robot dog, officers were able to arrest an armed man that had barricaded himself inside a home on Cape Cod.
The SPOT robot police dog was shot three times by a barricaded suspect, authorities say.
On March 6, police released a robot designed and manufactured by Boston Dynamics into a Francis Circle residence in Barnstable to assist a Cape Cod SWAT team during a barricade situation.