Robert Peston

Meanwhile, it's struggled to keep up in crowded AI race.

Meanwhile, Xiaomi, which sold its first car just last year, is turning a profit from electric vehicle sales.

The company's EV division posted a profit of approximately $98 million in the September quarter.

Xiaomi plans to boost its EV production as it looks to compete with Tesla and BYD.

Now, you may know this particular mechanical dog, we'll show you in a minute, for its viral dance routines.

But Boston Dynamite's four-legged robot, Spot, is also playing an increasing role in law enforcement.

According to previously unreported

News.

More than 60 bomb squads and SWAT teams across the U.S.

and Canada are now using Spot.

Our consumer tech reporter, Samantha Kelly, joins us now for more.

And Sam, I mean, how is this being adopted and what situations are we seeing them really take these on?

Yeah, this is really fascinating.

So we've seen some headlines over the years of spots showing up maybe at a crime scene, but now we're getting new data from Boston Dynamics that shows more law enforcement units across the U.S.

and Canada are implementing bringing these robotic dogs into their forces.

um to help out in hostage situations or um chemical uh you know materials that are um sensitive like going in to see if something is hazardous basically to prevent um law enforcement from entering somewhere this dog can go in it can climb stairs it can open doors it basically acts as a a separate set of eyes there's a live camera feed so an operator

standing quite far away from a scene can go in, assess the situation, and more law enforcement units, like I said, over 60 now in the U.S., but also we're seeing it overseas.

Police in Italy are also using it, the Dutch ministry, and it still remains quite popular in manufacturing and other facilities as well.

They aren't cheap, starting at $100,000, so the reward needs to be large, but what about some of the ethical implications here, Sam, briefly?

Yeah, so it starts at $100,000, to your point, but it can go way up from that.