ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
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[Topic] ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employ [Type] Internet Industry News [Key points] 1. US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk. [Industries] Internet [Source] Ars Technica (auto-collected by AiEmy Cloud / AiEmy Cloud StAck)
US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.
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 Immigration 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 called Radeco to provide ICE with modified versions of Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robots. But Boston Dynamics workers sent the petition letter with more than 300 signatures—half of them anonymous—to the company’s executives in early September and shared copies with The Boston Globe and WBUR public radio station.
“Many of us have gotten messages from friends and family, asking us in disbelief and horror if this news is true, and how we can live with ourselves if it is,” according to the petition. “The risk for Boston Dynamics is simply too great to continue with this deal.”
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