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The LAPD sent in its Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped. Its camera confirmed the man was asleep with a gun (Police1). The LAPD's quarterly report to the Police Commission says the robot was a barrier between suspect and firearm (NBC Los Angeles, 8 March 2024). The man woke, left the bus and was taken into custody about 6:40 a.m. The weapon was a BB gun (Police1). Deputy Chief David Kowalski approves each use. The robot cost nearly $300,000 (NBC). International Business Times' October 2024 account says the robot removed the gun.", "category": "protective response", "unexpected": false, "purpose": "Acquired, in Deputy Chief Kowalski's words, “to save lives” by putting a camera and an articulating arm into dangerous scenes ahead of officers. This standoff was that use.", "system": "Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot (LAPD 'Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle') with camera and articulating arm", "model_version": null, "developer": "Boston Dynamics", "deployer": "Los Angeles Police Department", "location": "Los Angeles, United States", "domain": "Law enforcement / tactical operations", "segment": "Armed standoffs and barricaded suspects", "benefit_type": "Reduced Risk", "taxonomy_note": "Trustible's Reduced Violence covers a weapon found, but what the sources establish is that officers kept their distance while a camera confirmed a sleeping, apparently armed man and the gun proved to be a BB gun; the good is the lowered risk to officers and the public while the standoff ran.", "registry_ids": { "oecd_aim": "2024-10-02-1544" }, "ratings": [ { "group": "organizational", "depth": 2, "reason": "The LAPD could confirm from the robot's camera that the man was asleep. By its own report, it kept the robot between him and the gun. The two-hour standoff ended in an arrest with no injury reported. A measurable result for the unit, with no counterfactual that officers would otherwise have been hurt." }, { "group": "personal", "depth": null, "reason": "The passengers had been evacuated before the robot was used, and the suspect was taken into custody unharmed. None of the reports ties either outcome to the robot rather than to the man waking and leaving the bus." } ], "ai_role": { "status": "assessed", "statement": "The accounts describe a remotely deployed quadruped with a camera and an articulating arm. None says that any autonomous function made a decision in this incident. The robot contributed a camera view confirming the man was asleep and, per the LAPD's report, a physical barrier between him and the gun. The Monitor's “AI-powered” label rests on the Boston Dynamics platform, not on anything the system is reported to have decided." }, "evidence": [ { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Goldberg, N., Los Angeles Times via Police1 (2023). LAPD robot dog brings peaceful end to standoff after 'sniffing out' armed man on bus. Police1, November 9, 2023.", "title": "LAPD robot dog brings peaceful end to standoff after 'sniffing out' armed man on bus", "url": "https://www.police1.com/police-robots/lapd-robot-dog-brings-peaceful-end-to-standoff-after-sniffing-out-armed-man-on-bus", "date": "2023-11-09", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "The guy eventually woke up, got off the bus and officers were able to talk to him and take him into custody for further questioning." }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "NBC Los Angeles (2024). LAPD reports 2 more uses of its robotic dog. NBC Los Angeles, March 8, 2024.", "title": "LAPD reports 2 more uses of its robotic dog", "url": "https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/lapd-reports-2-more-uses-of-its-robotic-dog/3359391/", "date": "2024-03-08", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "create a barrier between the suspect and the firearm" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Urban, E. (2024). LAPD Defends Unleashing Robot Dog on City, Promises 'Spot' Will Never Be Weaponized. International Business Times, October 3, 2024.", "title": "LAPD Defends Unleashing Robot Dog on City, Promises 'Spot' Will Never Be Weaponized", "url": "https://www.ibtimes.com/lapd-robot-dog-spot-3745457", "date": "2024-10-03", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "The main reason that we acquired Spot is to save lives." }, { "kind": "other", "citation": "Los Angeles City Clerk (2023). Council File 22-1438, Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle donation to the LAPD. Los Angeles City Clerk Connect, May 23, 2023.", "title": "Council File 22-1438", "url": "https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=22-1438", "date": "2023-05-23", "written_by": "deployer", "quote": "Report from Board of Police Commissioners" }, { "kind": "registry label", "citation": "OECD.AI (2024). LAPD Deploys AI Robot Dog 'Spot' to Disarm Armed Suspect, Raising Community Concerns. OECD AI Incidents and Hazards Monitor, 2024-10-02.", "title": "LAPD Deploys AI Robot Dog 'Spot' to Disarm Armed Suspect, Raising Community Concerns", "url": "https://oecd.ai/en/incidents/2024-10-02-1544", "date": "2024-10-02", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "to safely disarm an armed suspect on a Metro bus, preventing injury" } ], "replication": { "produced_by": [ "An armed or apparently armed person unresponsive in a confined space that officers cannot safely approach", "A tactical unit with a camera-and-arm ground robot on call and a deputy chief's approval for each use" ], "must_hold": [ "Officers position the robot and watch its camera before any approach rather than acting on its own motion", "Each deployment is approved in advance and reported to the Police Commission and City Council" ], "echoes": [] }, "paired_incident": null, "headline": "Robot dog checks armed man on Hollywood bus; standoff ends in arrest", "metric": null, "comparator": null, "later": null, "value": null, "developer_country": "United States", "deployer_country": "United States", "unrated_because": null, "brief_notes": null, "brief": null, "revisions": [ { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Record drafted from the OECD Monitor entry and the cited sources.", "source": "https://oecd.ai/en/incidents/2024-10-02-1544", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Country of the developer and the deployer added from the organization's own site or a registry.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Dynamics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Police_Department", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Prose pass: a rating reason, account, purpose, the system's part rewritten in shorter sentences with abbreviations expanded; facts, figures and quotations unchanged.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" } ], "confidence": "reported", "shade": "medium", "claim_status": "Independently reported", "claim_basis": "Sources: three independent news reports, a registry entry and the deployer's other. 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