Boston Dynamics employees want to block sale of robot dogs to ICE
US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.
On September 25, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a $1.3 million contract to Radeco, a Connecticut company, to provide the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with modified versions of Boston Dynamics' quadruped robots. Despite this, a group of hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees penned a petition demanding that executives halt the sale of the company's robot dogs to ICE.
The petition, which included more than 300 signatures, half of which were anonymous, was shared with The Boston Globe and WBUR public radio station. The petition read, "Many of us have gotten messages from friends and family, asking us in disbelief and horror if this news is true, and how we can live with ourselves if it is." The employees expressed their concern that the risk for Boston Dynamics is simply too great to continue with this deal.
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