Robot Dogs Are on Going on Patrol at the 2026 World Cup in Mexico

Authorities successful Mexico’s Guadalupe, Nuevo León, this week unveiled 4 robot dogs that volition beryllium portion of the information devices astatine BBVA Stadium, 1 of the 3 Mexican venues of the 2026 World Cup.

The “K9-X” portion functions arsenic a benignant of archetypal responder only. The robot dogs are not armed, but each portion incorporates video cameras, nighttime vision, and connection systems that are utilized to contented warnings oregon instructions. Its relation is to deter amerciable activity, observe antithetic behavior, place suspicious objects, power crowds, and instantly alert instrumentality enforcement erstwhile the strategy deems necessary.

Robot dogs run semi-autonomously: They bash not marque decisions oregon execute movements connected their own. Instead, they necessitate an relation to power them arsenic if they were handling a drone oregon a video game. The relation tin adjacent usage the robot's bid strategy to contented instructions during a crisis.

“These K9-X robot dogs are going to enactment the constabulary with an archetypal intervention, providing video and yet entering high-risk locations—that is, earlier nationalist information forces spell in—and to support officers’ carnal safety, the robots volition intervene successful the lawsuit of a combat oregon an intoxicated person,” Héctor García, politician of Guadalupe, said astatine a property conference. “We person bully constabulary officers, and we are moving manus successful manus with cutting-edge exertion for the information of the radical of Guadalupe.”

The K9-X portion has already made its archetypal authoritative intervention. During the past lucifer of Club de Futbol Monterrey successful the Concachampions, the robots patrolled the perimeter of the BBVA Stadium. According to the authoritative property release, the “robodogs” carried retired preventive patrols astatine the entrances and successful main gathering areas.

The robot dogs are conscionable 1 portion of Guadalupe's information strategy for the 2026 World Cup. The metropolis besides plans to usage precocious surveillance drones and anti-drone exertion to support ample events. The authorities person not disclosed the model, manufacturer, oregon galore method details of the K9-X units.

When the World Cup kicks disconnected successful June, the BBVA Stadium volition big 4 matches: 3 successful the radical signifier and 1 successful the circular of 16.

This communicative primitively appeared successful WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish.