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Boston Dynamics

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer

Incident 3082 Report
Atlas Robot Fell off Stage at Conference

2017-07-03

Boston Dynamics’s autonomous robot Atlas allegedly caught its foot on a stage light, resulting in a fall off the stage at the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders conference.

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Incidents involved as Developer

Incident 2074 Report
Hawaii Police Deployed Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment

2021-01-10

Honolulu Police Department spent federal pandemic relief funds on a robot dog to take body temperatures and patrol a homeless quarantine encampment which local civil rights advocates criticized as dehumanizing.

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Incident 981 Report
N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash

2021-04-28

The New York Police Department canceled a contract to use Boston Dynamics' robotic dog Spot following public backlash.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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New York City Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 98
    1 Report

    N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash

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New York City low-income communities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 98
    1 Report

    N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash

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Honolulu Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 207
    4 Reports

    Hawaii Police Deployed Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment

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Entity

Honolulu homeless people

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 207
    4 Reports

    Hawaii Police Deployed Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment

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Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 308
    2 Reports

    Atlas Robot Fell off Stage at Conference

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