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ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 days ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to buy at least a million dollars worth of robots from Boston Dynamics, the company that makes the dog-like SPOT robots, with the purpose of improving “officer safety,” according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

My esteem for Boston Dynamics just went into the toilet. They know exactly what ICE is. What a way to end 15 years of innovation and admiration.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They're were always going to sell these things to the likes of the military and the police, it was unrealistic to expect them not to. So every time they came out and said they wouldn't do anything draconian like that I just rolled my eyes.

If anyone is surprised by this that's on them for being naive.