Cable of chasing you down, ripping out your lungs, AND dropping
some wicked moves to K-pop!
tIt’s all fun and games when it comes to Boston Dynamics’ robot dog
SPOT. Watch as the loveable scamps dance to Korean boy
band music in their latest video:
As Zero Hedge notes, the video was made to signify South Korean firm Hyundai
Eric Whitman, a Boston Dynamics roboticist commented “There were a lot of
What is the deal with this?
Are we really supposed to believe that these machines are being
developed so they can dance around with 14 year old K-pop boys?
In reality, these machines are being made for military and law
enforcement purposes, as this recent video of the French
military highlights:
Last December, the NYPD is deployed a similar 70 pound robotic
Boston Dynamics dog capable of opening doors and moving objects out of its path.
In fact, the ‘dog’, called Digidog, is actively being used to apprehend
suspects, according to a report by ABC 7 News.
“This dog is going to save lives, protect people, and protect officers
and that’s our goal,” NYPD Technical Assistance Response Unit
Inspector (TARU) Frank Digiacomo said.
“This robot is able to use its artificial intelligence to navigate things,
very complex environments,” NYPD TARU’s Deepu John added.
Watch:
Last year, one of the machines was used in Singapore to enforce
social distancing and mask wearing:
The ‘SPOT’ dog was also deployed last year by Massachusetts
State Police in live action situations to provide troopers with images of
suspicious devices or reveal where suspects were hiding.
Video of MA State Police testing the dogs shows one of the robots
opening a door, mirroring footage released previously by
Boston Dynamics.
Boston Dynamics routinely releases slick videos of the machines
in action:
The AI on the dogs is open, so it can be customized, and the machines
can be fitted with weapons. Along with the lease to law enforcement, that
is enough for Kade Crockford, director of the technology for liberty
program at the ACLU of Massachusetts to issue a warning.
“We just really don’t know enough about how the state police are using
this,” Crockford said. “And the technology that can be used in concert
with a robotic system like this is almost limitless in terms of what
kinds of surveillance and potentially even weaponization operations
may be allowed.”
“We really need some law and some regulation to establish a floor
of protection to ensure that these systems can’t be misused or
abused in the government’s hands,” Crockford said, adding “And
no, a terms of service agreement is just insufficient.”
The robot dogs inspired an infamous episode of Black Mirror in 2017,
where machines very similar looking to the SPOT, but more advanced,
were depicted hunting down and killing people after the unexplained
collapse of human society.
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