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Robo-Sniper Dog On Border Patrol

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Those “dog like” mobile satellite-linked sniper rifle robots we told you about back in October are about to go on border patrol along the Mexican frontier. U.S. authorities are currently testing “robotic patrol dogs” to provide “mechanical reinforcements” for border guards.

Robot border patrol dogs

Civil rights defenders have already started calling the robot border patrol dogs a “civil liberties disaster.

Ghost Robotics is the company who designed and developed the droids and made quite a stir, as we previously reported, when they “showcased a four-legged robot that has a sniper rifle attached to its back.” Besides precision firepower, the robo-dogs can haul things around like water bottles or emergency kits.

The Department of Homeland Security decided to go ahead and give the project a try, noting “its research and development armapproves the helping paw as a way to “force-multiply” border patrol efforts.

Due to the demands of the region, adding quadruped mechanical reinforcements is a smart use of resources,” DHS notes in a statement.

According to Gavin Kenneally, CEO of Ghost Robotics, this unarmed version of the robot dog weighs in at 100 pounds and was “bred” to “walk on sand, rocks and hills, as well as human-built environments such as stairs.” They were tested already on border patrol in El Paso, Texas.

The designer points out that’s “a desert area,” and the digi-dogs “were programmed to go on simulated sentry duty.” Already, DHS officials are considering some of the armed versions, suggesting “robots could even be used ‘as cover‘ for border guards.

Smugglers beware

Crime is everywhere but certain areas have more than their share of certain crimes. “Just like anywhere else, you have your standard criminal behavior,” Brett Becker, of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection advises. Along the border “you can also have human smuggling, drug smuggling, as well as smuggling of other contraband,” especially guns, but even potential weapons of mass destruction.

Robo-dogs on border patrol are high tech enough to add some real advancements in detection. Along with “Multiple Teledyne Flir Boson 640X512 Thermal Cameras for enhanced FoV and zoom detail.” it even has “signature management and camouflage against 3rd Generation Night Vision.

With federal agents along the border already harshly accused of “misconduct and mistreatment of the migrants and asylum seekers attempting to enter the US,” the pushback against the robot border patrol dogs is expected to be intense.

The government must retract this dangerous proposal, and the Biden administration must put the brakes on our country’s slide into an anti-immigrant dystopia,” The American Civil Liberties Union warned on Thursday, February 3.

DHS, on the other hand, doesn’t seem deterred. People should not be “surprised if in the future we see robot ‘Fido‘ out in the field, walking side-by-side with [CBP] personnel” on border patrol.

Just wait until they get the ones with the Sword International 6.5mm Creedmoor precision rifle attached.

What do you think?

Written by Mark Megahan

Mark Megahan is a resident of Morristown, Arizona and aficionado of the finer things in life.

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