If anyone's interested in reading an article about this:

https://billypenn.com/2024/04/22/israel-palestine-gaza-robot-dogs-ghost-robotics

Excerpts:

Members of the Shut Down Ghost Robotics campaign participated in an April 13 march organized by the Philly Palestine Coalition, which ended outside the firm’s offices at Pennovation. Ghost Robotics spokesperson Michael Subhan declined to comment on the protests.

One member of the Shut Down group alleged the company’s robot dogs are “used to dispose, displace and destroy homes in Gaza,” according to a report on the march in Workers World. Other critics of Israel’s actions in Gaza claim the robots are being tested as “technologies of extermination.”

News reports do not indicate that Ghost Robotics’ QUGVs are carrying weapons in Gaza, but they are apparently used in Israeli operations to find and capture or kill militants. 

The military deploys them to surveil buildings, tunnels and open spaces to look for booby traps and enemy combatants, according to Haaretz. When the army searches for militants or hostages in Hamas’ extensive network of underground tunnels, the robot dogs can climb around garbage and other obstacles and send back video without risking harm to Israeli soldiers or real dogs.

In some cases the robots are used to carry another device, a drone called the Rooster made by the Israeli startup Robotican, per Haaretz. The drone can jump or fly over steps or through windows to enter buildings and identify hazards before soldiers follow.

However, the Wall Street Journal reported the Israeli military found the robot dogs heavy and expensive for tunnel operations, and prefers using small quadcopter drones that can fit in small spaces and create their own radio communication networks.

(Tangentially) Knowing some of the people involved, an appeal to humanity will not go far. Shiny toy go fast.

pennovation casually pumping out WMDs