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ICE to buy four modified Boston Dynamics robot dogs
Original: ICE purchasing 4 modified Boston Dynamics robot dogs from CT company
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is purchasing four modified Boston Dynamics robot dogs from a Connecticut company. The acquisition puts law-enforcement use of quadruped robotics back in the spotlight, with critics likely to raise concerns about surveillance and immigration enforcement, while the maker's robots have previously been used by police and industrial sites for inspections and hazardous-environment work.
Why now: The use of robot dogs in immigration enforcement raises fresh privacy and ethics concerns.
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