On 07/08/2016 10:46 AM, M373 wrote:
They bombed him. This is the first incident in the US that I am aware of.
"10:20 a.m.
A robotics expert says Dallas police appear to be the first law enforcement agency to use a robot to kill.
Peter W. Singer, of the New America Foundation, says the killing of a suspect in Thursday night's fatal shooting of five police officers is the first instance of which he's aware of a robot being used lethally by police.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters that after hours of failed negotiations and in order to not put any officers in harm's way, his department used a robot to deliver a bomb that killed the suspect. Brown said they saw no other option.
Singer said in an email Friday that when he was researching his 2009 book "Wired for War" a U.S. soldier told him troops in Iraq sometimes used MARCbot surveillance robots against insurgents."
http://www.wrdw.com/content/news/The-Latest-Police-1-officer-killed-3-injure...
Local PD used one to kill a guy who was already dead about 8/9 years ago. A cop saw a wanted fleeing felon in a van in a parking lot, approached the door, gunfire exchanged and he retreated. An hour or two later in the 'standoff' they sent out a robot to place a concussion grenade under the van and detonated it. They found out the perp had been mortally wounded in the initial exchange of gunfire and was dead when they blew him up. They've also used the robot to blow up a couple of Geotag gamer caches around town ROTF! Rr