ICE robot dog purchase draws protest from more than 300 Boston Dynamics employees
ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
What happened
More than 300 Boston Dynamics employees signed a petition opposing a sale of modified Spot robots to ICE, but company executives stood by the deal. A $1.3 million Department of Homeland Security contract awarded to Radeco covers four Cerberus robots for hazardous-substance detection and remote inspection. Employees warned of hiring and retention risks, while Boston Dynamics cited safety benefits and terms prohibiting use of Spot to harm, intimidate or enable weapons.
Read next
More changes in today’s briefingNvidia open-sources Flora with projected robot video labeling costs up to 125x lower than GPT-6 AstraKeep up with AI, one email a day
Model releases, price changes and compute developments, with original sources. Free, confirmed by email, and easy to unsubscribe. Read a past issue · 2026-10-26