San Francisco's ruling Board of Supervisors has voted to let the city's police use robots that can kill. The measure permits police to deploy robots equipped with explosives in extreme circumstances.
SAN FRANCISCO--Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations but not until after an ...
SAN FRANCISCO--San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to put the brakes on a controversial policy that would have let police use robots for deadly force, reversing course just days after their ...
Community members expressed a similar concern in 2022 when arguing that San Francisco's police department should not have access to killer robots. Chinese for Affirmative Action is a civil rights ...
No charge. As longtime readers may know, I’m a booster of robots, drones, and automated vehicles. This vote in San Francisco to allow police to use robots to kill or incapacitate threatening ...
SAN FRANCISCO: The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponised police robots last week after supervisors approved limited use of the remote-controlled ...
Proposition E would provide the San Francisco Police Department with new high-tech ... be able to deploy advanced technology ...
SAN FRANCISCO: Police in San Francisco defended their potential use of killer robots on Thursday, insisting they would be a "last resort" and only for very dangerous situations. Detectives in the ...
Last year, the New York City Fire Department used robot dogs to assist with search-and-rescue missions. San Francisco canceled a plan last year to allow police robots to use lethal force.
Police brought the robot back to Boston Dynamics for repairs ... His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San ...
The Democratic San Francisco Board of Supervisors could allow police to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations. The 11-member board will vote Tuesday, Nov. 29 ...
San Francisco supervisors voted on Tuesday to put the brakes on a controversial policy that would have let police use robots for deadly force just days after their approval of the plan generated ...