美国机器人公司波士顿动力的数百名员工签署请愿书，呼吁高管叫停向美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）出售该公司机器狗的交易——但高管坚持该交易，并表示机器狗不会被武器化。
Hundreds of employees at the US robotics firm Boston Dynamics signed a petition calling for executives to halt a sale of the company’s robot dogs to US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement—but executives stood by the deal, while saying the robots would not be weaponized.
9月25日，国土安全部合同向康涅狄格州的一家名为Radeco的公司拨款130万美元，为ICE提供波士顿动力四足机器人的改装版本。但波士顿动力员工在9月初将一份拥有300多个签名（其中一半匿名）的请愿信发送给公司高管，并与《波士顿环球报》和WBUR公共电台分享了副本。
On September 25, the Department of Homeland Security contract awarded $1.3 million to a Connecticut company called Radeco to provide ICE with modified versions of Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robots. But Boston Dynamics workers sent the petition letter with more than 300 signatures—half of them anonymous—to the company’s executives in early September and shared copies with The Boston Globe and WBUR public radio station.
请愿书称：“我们许多人收到了来自亲友的信息，他们难以置信且感到震惊地询问这条消息是否属实，如果是真的，我们如何能心安理得。”“对波士顿动力而言，继续这笔交易的风险实在太大。”
“Many of us have gotten messages from friends and family, asking us in disbelief and horror if this news is true, and how we can live with ourselves if it is,” according to the petition. “The risk for Boston Dynamics is simply too great to continue with this deal.”