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Hawaii Police Deployed Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment
Honolulu Police Department spent federal pandemic relief funds on a robot dog to take body temperatures and patrol a homeless quarantine encampment which local civil rights advocates criticized as dehumanizing.
- Date it happened
- 2021-01-10
- Organisation involved
- Honolulu Police Department
- Product, system or model
- "According to Boston Dynamics, Spot is a “stable, dynamically balanced quadruped robot” that can do what other robots and drones cannot, like climb stairs, work around obstructions and operate in “con
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