ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-spends-millions-on-boston-dynamics-dog-robots/

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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arotrios@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 19d (1 reply)

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
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AviAdi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 19d

Maybe it's time we Bob general dynamics headquarters?

distal@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 18d (1 reply)

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 (3 replies)

Maybe smarter than the ICE agents.

Meanwhile in China

https://youtube.com/shorts/tUQCMyMQWzI

sleepy62@social.vivaldi.net · 2 pts · 18d (1 reply)

@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.