原标题：ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
波士顿动力数百名员工签署请愿信，要求高管停止通过承包商 Radeco 向美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）出售机器狗。国土安全部 9 月 25 日向 Radeco 授予 130 万美元合同，提供改装版四足机器人；请愿信有 300 多个签名，其中约半数匿名，但高管坚持交易，并表示这些机器人不会被武器化。
原文呈现了员工诉求、合同金额和公司回应两层事实，便于读者了解这起机器人采购争议的双方立场。
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Hundreds of employees at the US robotics firm Boston Dynamics signed a petition calling for executives to halt a sale of the company’s robot dogs to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement—but executives stood by the deal, while saying the robots would not be weaponized.
On September 25, the Department of Homeland Security contract awarded $1.3 million to a Connecticut company called Radeco to provide ICE with modified versions of Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robots. But Boston Dynamics workers sent the petition letter with more than 300 signatures—half of them anonymous—to the company’s executives in early September and shared copies with The Boston Globe and WBUR public radio station.
“Many of us have gotten messages from friends and family, asking us in disbelief and horror if this news is true, and how we can live with ourselves if it is,” according to the petition. “The risk for Boston Dynamics is simply too great to continue with this deal.”
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