US EditionA $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing -- and Raising Ethical Alarms
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A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing -- and Raising Ethical Alarms
(Bloomberg) — Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like “Uptown Funk.” But beyond its playful antics, Spot’s ability to climb stairs and open doors signals a potentially controversial role as a policing tool.
The research laboratory Anthropic has carried out a test that puts on the table an increasingly relevant topic: the integration of language models like Claude with robotic systems. On this occasion, researchers invited Claude to control a robot dog, a quadruped version similar to the well-known Boston Dynamics machines. The test was not made out of mere curiosity, but to explore the limits of what a language AI can do when asked to act in the re…
The four-legged robot "Spot", often referred to as "Robot Dog", the US company Boston Dynamics, is becoming more and more an important part of police work in many countries. More than 60 operations teams or bomb control teams use it in the USA. Worldwide, "Spot" is said to have been sold around 2000 times. (Read more)
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