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.
ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-spends-millions-on-boston-dynamics-dog-robots/
11 Comments
arotrios@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 19d
Just wait until you see what's in their budget next year...
aim4harmony@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d
The flying shits? 😂
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 19d
AviAdi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 19d
Maybe it's time we Bob general dynamics headquarters?
distal@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 18d
This is going to create unsustainable costs in the long run. In the medium term it will hurt people indescriminately.
su_liam@mas.to · 1 pts · 17d
@distal @technocrit Oh, I’m sure there’ll be a lot of discrimination.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 19d
Maybe smarter than the ICE agents.
Meanwhile in China
https://youtube.com/shorts/tUQCMyMQWzI
sleepy62@social.vivaldi.net · 2 pts · 18d
@Zerush @technocrit
The Kata is a bit sloppy but considering its a robot doing it im damn impressed.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 18d
At least they don't like call centers
https://youtube.com/shorts/9F-1M65D26U
but there is also an 1,80m Police version which give me goosebumps
https://youtu.be/ioi3r007mTU
davel@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 19d
We’re going to have our ass handed to us in the robot wars.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 17d
Fuck
swelter_spark@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 18d
There's gotta be a way to hack these things.