# Boston Dynamics starts a legal dog fight with competitor Ghost

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/boston-dynamics-starts-a-legal-dog-fight-with-competitor-ghost/
- Published: 2022-11-18T09:30:40-06:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo caption: Should there be only one top dog? Photo credit: Deposit Photos. Article by Andrew Paul. Popular Science – November 16, 2022. This comes shortly after Ghost added a sniper rifle to one of their models. Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics have both offered similarly unsettling four-legged automatons to consumers for a few years now—although only one of those companies recently strapped a sniper rifle to their product. As it seems, however, turning your quadrupedal robot into a killing machine apparently isn’t enough of a differentiation to prevent a legal battle, as Tech Crunch and elsewhere report that Boston Dynamics has filed a lawsuit against Ghost Robotics alleging multiple patent infringements. […] Click here to view original web page at www.popsci.com