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Robotic police dogs: Useful hounds or dehumanizing machines?


Robotic police dogs: Useful hounds or dehumanizing machines?
MATT O BRIEN and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, Associated Press
July 30, 2021
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HONOLULU (AP) If you’re homeless and looking for temporary shelter in Hawaii’s capital, expect a visit from a robotic police dog that will scan your eye to make sure you don’t have a fever.
That’s just one of the ways public safety agencies are starting to use Spot, the best-known of a new commercial category of robots that trot around with animal-like agility.
The handful of police officials experimenting with the four-legged machines say they’re just another tool, like existing drones and simple wheeled robots, to keep emergency responders out of harm’s way as they scout for dangers. But privacy watchdogs the human kind warn that police are secretly rushing to buy the robots without setting safeguards against aggressive, invasive or dehumanizing uses. ....

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