While many still see robot dogs as a technological curiosity, in the United States they have already begun to take on security functions in the real world. The company Asylon, in collaboration with Boston Dynamics, transformed the famous Robot Spot into an autonomous surveillance platform called DroneDog. The proposal is clear, create a guard who never sleeps, is never distracted and patrols 7 days a week.

The system was designed to move only through industrial facilities, warehouses, restricted areas and complex environments, identifying security breaches, suspicious activities and abnormal movements, but the impact is not only in walking around, it is in seeing better than humans can, because the DroneDog carries high-resolution electro-optical and thermal cameras with 20 times optical zoom, capable of operating in low light, fog and places with visual obstructions.

In other words, it continues watching when human guards practically stop seeing, in addition, artificial intelligence classifiers analyze images in real time to detect possible threats and issue alerts instantly, if something seems wrong, the system reacts, if everything is normal, it continues patrolling and when the battery gets low, the robot returns alone to the charging base called dog house, where it automatically connects and returns to service later, without pause, without change of shift, the robbery does not work alone, it is part of a larger network.

The John IQ platform created by Asylon connects the robot dog with fixed cameras, alarms, access control and human operators, instead of being an isolated machine, it acts as part of a coordinated security system, it is an important change, for decades, security depended on people watching screens, now intelligent systems patrol the environment, cross-reference data and call humans only when something really matters, this reduces costs, expands coverage and eliminates blind spots.

But it also raises inevitable questions: How long until companies prefer machines instead of complete equipment? The complete set can cost more than $150,000.