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Boston Dynamics and Other Tech Companies Promise Not to Weaponize Their Robots

HUNTER KILLER

But it’s going to take a lot more than a letter to stop businesses from making the Terminator.

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A group of robotics companies including Boston Dynamics have signed an open letter promising never to weaponize their robots—while calling on their peers to do the same.

The plea was published on Thursday and signed by six robotics companies: Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics, and Unitree.

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