Boston Dynamics employees petition to block a robot-dog sale to ICE
From the Robots digest for Oct 26, 2026
What happened: Ars Technica reports that hundreds of employees at Boston Dynamics signed a petition calling for the company's executives to halt a planned sale of robot dogs to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), turning an agency procurement plan into internal opposition from the robot maker's own workforce.
What's genuinely new: the employee petition itself — a public, workforce-level attempt inside Boston Dynamics to stop an ICE robot-dog purchase before it closes.
Watch: whether Boston Dynamics halts or proceeds with the sale, any company response to the petition and its final size, and whether other agencies' robot-procurement plans draw similar opposition from robotics workers.
Sources Ars Technica