US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.

The Cerberus quadruped robot sold by Radeco is a modified version of the Boston Dynamics robot Spot upgraded with military-grade equipment and designed to detect dangerous substances.

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Radeco

The Cerberus quadruped robot sold by Radeco is a modified version of the Boston Dynamics robot Spot upgraded with military-grade equipment and designed to detect dangerous substances.

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Radeco

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 executives stood by the deal, while saying the robots would not be weaponized.

On September 25, the Department of Homeland Security contract awarded $1.3 million to a Connecticut company called Radeco to provide ICE with modified versions of Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robots.…