ICE Plans to Spend Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
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ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”

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.

  • katiecakes@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    22 hours ago

    I forgot how horrifying this episode was. Part of me wants to rewatch, part of me thinks it’s too close to our current reality.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      It’s such a great episode. Because while the thing is terrifying, it’s also vaguely dog-like and clumsy in some of its movements, so you can’t help but anthropomorphise a bit.

      But then something that looks kind of cute can still kill you dead.

    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      20 hours ago

      No one is going to tell everyone else which show and episode you guys are talking about?

      • katiecakes@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        It’s called Metalhead, from Black Mirror (you could have also just asked, instead of this comment, would have gladly said so).

        • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          It’s called Metalhead, from Black Mirror

          Thanks!

          (you could have also just asked, instead of this comment, would have gladly said so)

          (That was me asking in an indirect way. You also didn’t have to put that sentence in parenthesis, I still would have read it!)

      • Atropos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        19 hours ago

        That’s black mirror I believe, one of the earlier seasons. Don’t recall the exact episode though!