Last year, Ghost made headlines after showing off a robot dog with an automated rifle mounted on its back at a Washington DC trade show.
Ghost Robotics’ late CEO, Jiren Parikh, has historically downplayed the company’s weaponization of its robots.
“We’re selling to the military, we don’t know what they do with them. We’re not going to dictate to our government customers how they use the robots,” Parikh told TechCrunch last year.Boston Dynamics is seeking unspecified damages for the alleged patent violation.The NYPD made brief use of Boston Dynamics’ four-legged-robot “Spot” in 2021 for non-violent tasks like inspecting suspicious packages or searching structurally dangerous environments.
The city pulled the plug on its contract with the robot designer in March 2021 after widespread feedback from New Yorkers that the robots were creepy and unsettling. The Boston Dynamics lawsuit states that the company first sent Ghost Robotics a letter in June asking the company to review its patents. After hearing nothing back, the company sent a series of cease and desist letters that went unanswered.
Boston Dynamics filed a lawsuit in a Delaware court this week against Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics.“We welcome competition in the emerging mobile robotics market, but we expect all companies to respect intellectual property rights, and we will take action when those rights are violated,”
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