Response does not compute

Today, I was reading a two-day-old article about the manhunt for the guy who killed four police outside Seattle last Sunday, when I ran across this:

Police later learned he may have been in a house in Seattle. After an all-night siege in which they tried to get him out using loudspeakers, explosions and a robot sent into the house, a SWAT team stormed the place and discovered he was not there.

Wait, what?  They sent a robot into the house??  What is this, Robocop?  They should have sent this guy:

He'd have gotten the job done, unless he tripped on the stairs.