Machine gun-wielding robot dogs are better sharpshooters, claims study
https://interestingengineering.com/military/robot-dogs-better-sharpshooters-study
Machine gun-wielding robot dogs are better sharpshooters, claims study
https://interestingengineering.com/military/robot-dogs-better-sharpshooters-study
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“A new Chinese study claims that machine gun-armed robot dogs are as accurate as trained human marksmen. If true, we could be about to witness a revolution of sorts in urban warfare.”
The study’s findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal *The Chinese Journal of Engineering* last month.
According to the research team, they have developed a special weapon mount specifically designed for the task. This contrasts with American attempts that, in effect, just strap a weapon to the back of the robot dog.
“The urban landscape, with its maze of intersecting streets and towering edifices packed tightly together, poses unique challenges for unmanned combat platforms. These platforms must negotiate unstructured terrain and execute intricate actions such as maneuvering, scaling, and leaping – rendering traditional wheeled and tracked designs inadequate,” added the team.”
There’s nothing absolutely terrifying about this at all. Rest well all!
We have precision guided weapons powered by computers. Of course these things will be accurate.
One day in the near future they will be many times faster in all terrains and vastly more accurate then humans.
War is going to be a new hell if packs of these are released in towns and villages. Imagine this in the hands of some extremist state or given by such state to a terrorist group.
There is an entire Black Mirror episode dedicated to this very idea.
If you ever feel scared about these kinds of robots, just remember that a bunch of marines approached a people-detecting AI machine undetected by: hiding under a cardboard box, dressing up as a tree, and doing backflips. No machine can out-think human creativity, and while these machines may change how wars are fought: they’re not going to make humans obsolete.
Of course. It’s amazing how much blood violently pumping through your arm and shoulder will bump the weapom off track.
Oh! Well if they are better, then I mean yeah, why wouldn’t ya?
how is this surprising??? shooting is all about ballistic calculator and firm hands. both is better in robots
I’m betting that they cost like 30x as much to field as a conventional soldier however, and are easily destroyed by both conventional munitions as well as cheap anti-drone electronic warfare kits, making them ultimately impractical in deployment.
Imagine being such a smart human race that you waste all your time on greed and murder…. ya we are totally going extinct.
Sounds like the dog from Fahrenheit 451. This should be interesting seeing its use in military situations as well as domestic police operations. Should be enlightening.
I am more terrified of China having nukes than a robot dog mounted with a machine gun.
Well, they beat the hell out of the regular dogs we tried that’s for sure.
Within our lifetime, we will see robots be deployed against enemies. Potentially could be very one sided, such as the US policing it’s border. Truly terrifying to think a person fleeing his country for poor opportunity could encounter a weaponized automoton