This I can agree with. Despite my general unease with ANYTHING that can be reasonably called a police robot, even the cops seem to realize they’ll probably kill less people this way.

“In addition to providing critically important room clearance and situational awareness capabilities, the insertion of Roscoe into the suspect residence prevented the need, at that stage of response, from inserting human operators, and may have prevented a police officer from being involved in an exchange of gunfire.”

At least it doesn’t matter when the operator of the unarmed robot thinks the phone (or sandwich, or wallet) you are holding is a gun - it probably doesn’t cost you your life.