New York City councilmember Ben Kallos says he "watched in horror" last month when city police responded to a hostagesituation in the Bronx using Boston Dynamics' Digidog, a remotely operated robotic dog equipped with surveillance cameras.

Pictures of the Digidog went viral on Twitter, in part due to their uncanny resemblance with world-ending machines in the Netflix sci-fi series Black Mirror.

Now Kallos is proposing what may be the nation's first law banning police from owning or operating robots armed with weapons.

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Use of Boston Robotics' Digidog intensifies concerns about police militarization.

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