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ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees

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Hundreds of employees at the US robotics firm Boston Dynamics signed a petition calling for executives to halt a sale of the company’s robot dogs to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement—but…

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