Boston Dynamics employees want to block sale of robot dogs to ICE
Summary
Hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees signed a petition asking company leaders to stop selling robot dogs to immigration authorities. Management refused to cancel the deal, though they assured workers that the machines would not be equipped with weapons.
Hundreds of employees at the US robotics firm Boston Dynamics signed a petition calling for executives to halt a sale of the company’s robot dogs to US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement—but executives stood by the deal, while saying the robots would not be weaponized. On September 25, the Department of Homeland Security contract awarded $1.3 million to a Connecticut company…
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