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Man's best friend

Real dogs are unsuitable to take the brutal temperatures caused by fossil fuel combustion:
NSW police dogs died in car’s special cooling ‘pod’ when engine switched off.
theguardian.com/australia-news

Incorporating robot dogs unarmed at first in industrial agriculture
Robotic unarmed dogs are used to scare native birds away from orchards. Aiming for biodiversity free plantations.
abc.net.au/news/2024-11-04/haz

Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Rifles in Middle East
military.com/daily-news/2024/1
#dogs #AI #UAV #biodiversity #birds #plantation #ag #violence #technosphere #RobotDogs #ExtremeHeat #FossilFuels

🥥 Prof Petra Molnar reports that robot dogs are being trained for duty at the US/Mexico border.
"...And in one of the most surreal moments of my career — and I have had many over the years — while in the Sonora searching for people who had died during their crossings, I learned that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it was training 'robot dogs' to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border."
rawstory.com/border-technologi
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#Border, #RobotDogs, #USBorder, #HomelandSecurity, #PetraMolnar,

Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism · Deadly border technologies are increasingly employed to violently deter migrationBy The Conversation