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Here's Digidog.
The robot will be remotely controlled only by trained, TARUO,
Technical Assistance and Response Unit officers and
be deployed to assist ESU, Emergency Service Unit in hostage negotiations,
counterterrorism incidents, and other situations as needed.
This will only be deployed at the direction of the Chief of Department,
myself.
This is something that's been used with the FDNY for the last year and
they've had positive success with it.
>> I'm not saying that there's no role in a hostage situation,
what exactly is the Digidog doing in that case?
Can you be very clear, is it shooting people?
Because it seems like in some of these that's the only thing that might
be helpful when you clearly don't want to send in a person who might get shot, so
you send in the Digidog who might get shot.
To shoot someone, I don't know, I need more details.
Because if I had to decide right now, I would say, de-Digidog the police.
I like robots, I'm not against robots.
I just don't know if they're the people who should get the first crack at using
robots, maybe.
Okay, so that's a little bit weird, right?
And then it gets sort of, did anyone else think it was ominous as it gets closer and
the noise [SOUND] is getting louder as it hunts you?
Well, the issue is that it's even scarier than it looks because
those are being tested to patrol the border.
>> Also, when it is walking around, it looks like it's just searching for
its head.
It looks like it should have a head and it's searching for it, and
that's the lore.
Like it used to have a head and
now it just roams the border at night looking for its head, or yours.
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>> It was inevitable that somebody was gonna put a submachine gun on the back of
one of these robot dogs, and now we're there.
Apparently it's the Russians in this particular case.
Now that is not a Boston Dynamics robot, just to be clear.
It does look like one of the Boston Dynamics robots that went viral a few
years back, it's not that.
But it's even scarier because that sort of robot,
there's a bunch of knockoffs that you can buy online.
They cost like a couple of K, like maybe $4,000.
>> That was the natural conclusion of these robot dogs.
Instead we've been seeing them out and about going like,
please stay six feet apart from one another, we're in a pandemic, yay.
And you're like, I guess this is cool, what?
Why do we need a dog?
Why are you taking people's jobs, dog?
And now it's like, why are you taking people's lives?
Not a dog.
>> Not a dog, it's a murder bot, that's what it is.