{"id":564831,"date":"2026-04-04T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564831\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:23:09","slug":"even-our-guard-dogs-are-being-replaced-by-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564831\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Our Guard Dogs Are Being Replaced by Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Robot security guards are getting a four-legged, battery-powered assist. As AI data centers spread across sprawling, 24\/7 campuses, operators are starting to deploy &#8220;robot dogs&#8221; from companies like Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics to roam fence lines, scan equipment, and spot problems before they knock servers offline, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/robot-dogs-quadruped-data-center-security-boston-dynamics-ghost-robotics-2026-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business Outsider<\/a>. Boston Dynamics says interest in its <a href=\"https:\/\/bostondynamics.com\/products\/spot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spot robot<\/a> from data centers has surged over the past year, with customers using the $175,000 to $300,000 machines for more than just security: They also map venues, keep tabs on construction, and look for heat anomalies, leaks, or odd noises inside facilities.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        The company says buyers typically recoup costs in about 18 months, not counting the value of the data collected. Ghost Robotics&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostrobotics.io\/vision-60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vision 60<\/a>, starting at around $165,000, is being used at a handful of centers mainly for perimeter patrols, with the economic pitch framed against the roughly $150,000 annual cost of a human guard. Both firms stress that the bots supplement, but don&#8217;t replace, people\u2014humans still sit in control rooms watching live video feeds\u2014as they try to tap into what one executive calls a &#8220;large market&#8221; of thousands of existing and planned US data centers. (Check out what happened when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/we-bought-a-peeing-robot-attack-dog-from-temu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wired writer purchased<\/a> his very own &#8220;peeing robot attack dog&#8221; off of Temu.)&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Robot security guards are getting a four-legged, battery-powered assist. As AI data centers spread across sprawling, 24\/7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,148867,7258,2681,168273,249887,74,132643],"class_list":{"0":"post-564831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-boston-dynamics","12":"tag-data-centers","13":"tag-dogs","14":"tag-guard-dog","15":"tag-security-guards","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-watchdog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}