Sorry but what the fuck did they think they were making these stupid ass things for

And just what in the fuck did you think the autonomous robot dogs were going to be used for, exactly??

Boston Dynamics has been very upfront about the fact that they've been developing the robot dogs for "police and military" applications. This protest is performative; they've known exactly what they're doing for a very long time.

WELL WHAT DID YOU THINK THE ROBOTS WERE FOR??

Dr. Venture: Weapon? What are you talking about? Why the applications are limitless.

UN Science Director: Are you kidding me? You blew up a model city with it. What are we suppose to think? Look, it even melted all the little people and stuff. Awww.

Dr. Venture: Well, I suppose if it ever fell into the wrong hands it could be modified and used as a weapon after a fashion. But thats true of almost any technology.

Who did they think their market would be?

Of course it's ICE, and any other government agency with a budget to burn through.

Sometimes I worry that maybe the state doesn't have our best interests in mind 👉👈

Are we supposed to believe those employees weren't aware of Boston Dynamics long history of being funded by DARPA with the explicit intent of employing their robots for state use?

https://www.darpa.mil/node/2035

https://www.darpa.mil/about/innovation-timeline/atlas-robot-debut

Here at Torment Nexus we’re appalled that our company is going to sell the newest Torment Nexus to an organization that wants to use it to torment. We thought our management would act differently. After all, they’ve read “Don’t Build the Torment Nexus” just like we have and they know the risks of the Torment Nexus getting into the wrong hands.

The company's ethical principles state "if our products are being used for harm, we will take appropriate measures to mitigate that misuse." However, it's unclear what those mitigation measures would be.

ICE's entire purpose is to cause harm, you stupid assholes!

Boston Dynamics was a much cooler company when they were known as Boston Acoustics, selling car audio gear.

They are really going to be used for one thing: walking flock surveillance. They are going to be deployed around neighborhoods to see who they can spot that's latino looking enough or who's simply on their suspect list. Wanna bet if they will get the local police departments to deploy them for ICE as well? They will spot suspects, build a profile, and when they have enough ICE moves in.

I wonder what these people honestly thought the end result of building robots would be in the real world.

These sorts of use cases have always been the most likely end result.

Reminds me of the scientist that creates the torment machine then is shocked and appalled when it is used for awful things.

Some people are too idyllic for their own good.

What I expected robots to be uses for when I was a kid:

• Construction operations.
• High risk rescue operations.
• Hazardous environment operations.

What robots are actually going to be used for:

"We cannot be proud of working at [Boston Dynamics] when that work is being used by a government agency that brutalizes civilians, including some of our own colleagues ... ," the petition read.

But like, what did they think their dogs would be used for? Walks in the park? Of bit ICE, then what?

ICE has lots of money it seems. Too bad the american people hardly have any.

I read the title multiple times and really thought they were trying to put spurs on robot dogs.

The most batshit insane thing about this whole ice and immigration nonsense is that about 99% of Americans do not want a Gestapo running the streets under the guise of getting rid of immigrants. I am so sick and tired of supposed politicians who are supposed to be representing the American people and the people's will, just doing whatever the fuck they want. Sure, a small minority of Americans really love the Gestapo aspect of torturing people who are undocumented (which by the way is a misdemeanor, it's paperwork for fucksake) it's really sad and pathetic that people support this.

"Oh no, the all-purpose machine we made is being used for one of those purposes that was predicted by just about every scifi ever!"

They're just protesting to virtue signal.