Call to probe Boston police tests of 'dog' robots

[Daisy Cloudskitter]

Massachusetts State Police has been asked to explain how it is using robot dogs, by a civil liberties group.

The police force has spent the past three months testing "Spot" robot dogs alongside some of its officers.

The robots, made by Boston Dynamics, are believed to have helped with several live incidents as well as training scenarios.
The American Civil Liberties Union wants details about how and where the robots were being used.

Call to probe Boston police tests of 'dog' robots

A civil liberties group wants to know if the robots will ever be armed and what roles they may take on.

www.bbc.com

 

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The rights group also wants to know if the robots will ever carry weapons.

 

[R13...]

Yeah isn't that how those black mirror dogs started?

 

[satanboy]

 

[Daisy Cloudskitter]

Yeah isn't that how those black mirror dogs started?

^^ Yep, apparently Spot & co are 'influencers'.

Metalhead (Black Mirror) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[wbot]

War of the Worlds..

 

[Daisy Cloudskitter]

War of the Worlds..

^ Yea that's what i thought. Baaaad Spot.

 

[Okty]

Those robot dogs give me the creeps.

Reminds me somewhat of Alien 3.

 

[Eniigma]

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The robots, made by Boston Dynamics, are believed to have helped with several live incidents as well as training scenarios.
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Totally off topic and unrealted but I saw a big rig in Durban yesterday with Boston Dynamics on the side. I took note because I thought it was a cool sounding name and some thing I'd expect to come out of Fallout 4.

I wonder if it's the same company or someone in SA is copying it.