The resemblance to an actual dog is loose but the quadrupedal robot dogs known as “Spot” from Boston Dynamics do have four legs. They're often used to do reconnaissance in hazardous environments.And four of them are working security at the World Cup games in Dallas and New York. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Merry Frayne, at Boston Dynamics, about Spot’s capabilities and why they wanted to deploy them at live sporting events.
Why Boston Dynamics is deploying robot dogs at the World Cup
Boston Dynamics senior director of product for software and quadrupeds, Merry Frayne, discusses how their dog-like Spot robots are being deployed at live stadiums for surveillance and security.









