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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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In the one hand, this could be such a powerful tool, on the other hand we have a clear track record of police abuse of power, and over using force.