Spot, the robot dog made by Boston Dynamics, was fired this week by the New York City police department, which terminated its $94,000 lease and returned the machine to its maker. New Yorkers handle a ...

Let's say, just hypothetically, that a surveillance robot styled after a dog was giving you a hard time. In this situation, you'd want to shut the thing down, and quickly. Thankfully, when it comes to ...

You, too, can take Spot for a walk thanks to Formant, a company that lets humans manage robots from afar. Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest ...

Spot, Boston Dynamics’ famous robot dog, dutifully follows my every command. The machine traipses forward, then automatically scrambles over a raised bed of rocks. I make it side-step. I command it up ...

This autumn, after years of dropping view-amassing videos of Spot the robot dog fending off stick-wielding humans and opening doors for its pals, Boston Dynamics finally announced that the machine was ...