ICE plans to spend up to $2M on Boston Dynamics robot dogs

Immigration and Customs Enforcement disclosed procurement plans in late August to spend as much as $2 million on Boston Dynamics' Spot robots for immigration enforcement operations, according to reporting by NBC News and the Boston Globe. The agency's notice describes the doglike robots, which start around $75,000 per unit and can be fitted with cameras and chemical sensors, as providing remote inspection, situational awareness, and hazard assessment in environments that could be unsafe for officers; the purchase remains at the procurement stage rather than a completed deployment.