Boston Dynamics Is Hoping Robot Dogs Are Less Creepy While Fighting Fire

“Spot,” the nascent Terminator on four legs invented by Skynet, er, I mean, Boston Dynamics, has landed its next public safety gig: firefighter.The New York Times reports that the city’s fire department hasprocured two of the $US75,000 ($104,115) quadrupeds and plans to deploy them “occasionally,” leveraging them in especially dangerous situations where it’s harder for human responders to deploy. The first fire agency in the country to do so, the FDNY wants to