For decades, Hollywood, and more recently the streaming services of streaminghave toyed with the idea of a dystopian future world in which fearsome robot dogs are used as a police force to control crime.
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The most recent example is metal headan episode of the popular series BlackMirror (Netflix) that aired at the end of 2017 and in which mechanical dogs, which had been developed to protect the population, end up turning against them.
The worrying thing is that, for some time now, that idea, or at least part of it, went from being an imaginary to becoming a reality.
The week of February 14 to 18, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS for its acronym in English) announced that “very soon” it could deploy several of these robotic quadrupeds to guard the border with Mexico.
DHS and its science and technology department He has been working with Ghost Robotics for two years, the company that created the police robot prototypeso that its development has all the capabilities that can be applied in that type of terrain.
And although the DHS has not given a timetable for when the robot dogs could officially begin patrolling the border, what it did say is that the first tests were successful and that “very soon” they will be part of the US arsenal in this part of the country.
Robot dogs being considered for use on the US-Mexico border.
“The southwestern border of the country may be an inhospitable place for men and animals, but it is a critical area for our national security. That’s why a machine can excel in those conditions,” said Brenda Long, the director of Science and Technology at DHS.
And according to Brett Becker, of the Border Patrol, the support of these mechanical dogs could be ideal in a very particular area where drug trafficking, human trafficking, contraband and even, potentially,…
