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● 14/10/2021
“Boston Dynamics, the best-known manufacturer of quadrupedal robots, has a strict policy agains weaponizing its machines. Other manufacturers, it seems, aren’t so picky.”
– The Verge’s senior reporter James Vincent, on U.S. firm Ghost Robotics putting guns on robot dogs
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● 30/09/2021

Curated by British artist Bob Bicknell-Knight, “Algorithmic Bias” opens at [Senne], Brussels, featuring works by 13 international artists, including Zach Blas, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Ben Grosser, JODI, and Lynn Hershman Leeson, that critique computational systems of control. Among the new works included is one of Bicknell-Knight’s own: Second Variety imagines a Boston-Dynamics-inspired four-legged automaton unearthed in a distant future “by a society that has forgotten its original purpose.”

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● 20/02/2021
“Provocative art can help push a useful dialogue about the role of technology in our daily lives. This art, however, fundamentally misrepresents Spot® and how it is being used to benefit our daily lives.”
– Boston Dynamics, in a preemptive public statement after learning “that an art group is planning a spectacle to draw attention to a provocative use of our industrial robot Spot”
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