Robotics

Israel’s military is using robot dogs from Philly’s Ghost Robotics


The frequent pro-Palestinian marches and protests that activists have held in Philadelphia over the past few months have recently found a new target: Ghost Robotics.

The company designs and manufactures four-legged, dog-like mobile robots and is headquartered at the University of Pennsylvania’s Pennovation Works office and lab complex. The Israeli army has been using the company’s robots in the Gaza strip, according to news reports in the Haaretz newspaper and other sources.

At a protest on Penn’s campus earlier this month and a subsequent march through the streets of West Philadelphia, activists carried signs and put up banners with slogans like “Ghost Robotics fuels genocide.” They called on the university to boot the firm from Pennovation.

A member of a group called Shut Down Ghost Robotics said they are worried “that our tax dollars are subsidizing and that our campus is supporting the manufacture of these robotic dogs,” one protester told the Daily Pennsylvanian.



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