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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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Holy heckin’ Lordy. I have tied one on tonight. It’s been a long time since and not something I frequently do on the regular. But as I read this, a thought occurred. My Sister-in-law has a mouth breathing, window licking little weirdo that could easily distract robot doggos with a drone(s). Pretty sure the little fella could figure out to fly as many drones as needed simultaneously to get ‘er done. Checkmate!
It’s almost like Congress shouldn’t have given a bunch of low IQ fascists a blank fucking check.
Echoes of McNamara’s Morons
We need to normalize absolutely wrecking these robots in public.
Beat them to death with a flock pole
But Boston Dynamics has ethics and won’t do business with ICE, right? Right??
In the past, they held out and said no. I hope they stand by it now.
Don’t hold your breath
The dog will do it for you
Eh… $$$$$ > ethics unfortunately.
Depends on who owns them these days. Last I heard they had changed hands a couple times.
According to Wikipedia, it’s Hyundai at the moment.
Which ICE raided in Alabama last year. Hopefully they remember.
Georgia
These are the robot dogs with the big red button on them you can press and they turn off.
Some moronic swat team used it recently and then lost it because the barricaded suspect kicked the button.
Hopefully if this happens someone will make a helpful infographic on how to disable them
Its also really easy to yank the battery out if you need to. The battery also only lasts an hour and a half, tops, and depending what attachments are on it the weight and power draw will shorten that. They will only be useful in quick scenarios like breaching buildings in a raid. Range from the controller isnt very far either without wifi connection, you have to follow it around in unconnected locations.
People tend to imagine strapping a gun to it but really its a scouting tool. Open a door (awkwardly) walk in and look around. Then people follow in and do the work.
They also fall for the classic ‘put a blanket and/or some leaves over a hole in the ground’ pitfall trap.
They also trigger tripwires pretty regularly and don’t have much, if any defense against snares. Dumb shit like oil\lube on the ground will work too
Hell, I never thought of it before but just throwing a blanket over it would probably do a lot. Would be a fairly simple way to disable it long enough to get to the battery or off button.
Memories of the fourth Doctor foiling a Dalek by putting his hat on its eye-stalk.
I thought these super creepy gun mount ready robots were built to help blind people or something? Who saw this sort of abuse coming??
Just put a kitchen gun on the mount.
“Millions”? That’s about 20 dogs.
So these robots assist with breaking in to private homes in violation of the constitution? Because it doesn’t count if a human doesn’t break in first?
Schrödingers cop. Warrantless search? Not a cop, doesn’t count. Scratch its paint? Assaulting a police officer.
Oh god the terrorism enhancement for damaging robots will definitely apply
I recall that a common January 6 defense was “the window was already broken”
Everyone who said that deserves to get robbed after an anonymous person breaks all their windows
With all these electronic gadgets they be deploying… wonder if they’re shielded for EMP.
Oh yeah? You got an emp generator handy?
I remember that Black Mirror episode.
A million dollars worth? So four?
more like a half
Time to practice my bolas throw I guess.
Time to figure out how to start hacking those thing.
Just curious, where is the battery located on these things? Perhaps a nice, spring loaded puncturing device could get through the chassis and puncture the battery
Oh no! Do you think he’ll be okay?!
Relax the battery lasts for approx 3 hrs. Did you ever wonder why these dogs aren’t used by military who asked for it? Poor battery duratipn is the answer.
approx 3 hrs.
I’m done for if they ever come after me. My battery lasts about 2 minutes on a good day.
They’ll just find a way to make the droigs powered by consuming human flesh. They’ll learn that they need to continuously refill on the stuff or face permanent shutdown, so they’ll just get better and better at their job.
3 hrs is a shitload of time to get stuff done though
