Civil Rights Advocates Raise Concerns as Mass. State Police Try Out Boston Dynamics’s Robot Dog

Civil Rights Advocates Raise Concerns as Mass. State Police Try Out Boston Dynamics’s Robot Dog
Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Robot on display at WIRED25 Summiton in San Francisco, Calif., on October 15, 2018. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for WIRED25
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Massachusetts State Police has become the first law enforcement agency to use Boston Dynamics’s robot dog “Spot.”

The state’s bomb squad loaned Spot from the company between August and November, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts.