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Technology is here and New Yorkers shouldn’t be afraid of it, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said this morning as he and police leaders announced that the city would resurrect the controversial canine-like cyborgs to be used in high risk situations like a bomb threat or a barricaded shooter.
The use of the four-legged robot that the New York City Police Department calls Digidog was axed by the previous administration after it garnered fierce backlash from civil rights advocates. But it made its return in Times Square alongside two new technologies that the NYPD plans to pilot as part of its ongoing plan to utilize emerging, innovative, technologies to better keep officers and the public safe.
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