The Army Has Sent an Armed Robot Dog to the Middle East for Testing

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/01/army-has-sent-armed-robot-dog-middle-east-testing.html

48 Comments

  1. poo_poo_platter83 on

    Well thats terrifying. Well actually. Remote control doesnt bother me nearly as much as fully boston dynamics automated terror robot dog

  2. Thin-Concentrate5477 on

    It was fucking obvious those robot dogs were going to be carrying guns. Thanks a lot boston dynamics. They also have those humanoids with weird legs that can jump like grasshoppers. I wonder how long it will take for them to use those.

  3. Out of all the robot designs from deus ex, the robo rover from invisible war wasn’t the one I thought would become real.

  4. LITTLE-GUNTER on

    remember how people were watching the boston dynamics demos and saying “this is going to be used for the military, this is going to be used to kill people” and the response to those concerns was almost unilaterally telling them to shut up and stop feaemongering?

  5. I can write this movie:

    A squad of soldiers are sent out with a few contractors to test of The Field Intelligence Demolition Operative (or Fido). During the testing they are besest upon by a group of insurgents. Fido is damaged and starts hunting everyone, enemy and friendly. The soldiers and the insurgents have no choice but to team up to take out… **MAN’S BEST FRIEND**

  6. Wonder how much damage they can take from firearms before sustaining too much to function anymore

  7. They need to “test” them on the Lebanese population. Little speakers on the robots will be say…”Do not be afraid. We are not at war with you, we are at war with hezbollah.”

  8. War zones continue to be weapon-proof-of-concept areas.

    It sucks that war zones have no hope for a peaceful future.

  9. ghostofmumbles on

    Going to be great until one gets hacked and starts hitting friendlies. Or the AI decides to shoot anyone without prejudice.

  10. “And the U.S. military isn’t the only fighting force pursuing four-legged weapon combat robots. In May, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army debuted its own robot dog armed with a variant of the 5.8x42mm QBZ-95 assault rifle during a training exercise in Cambodia.” Post article quote

  11. Just face it, your personal AR-15 ain’t shit in a future where 20 of these can surround your house

  12. Our last existential threat was averted with a stalemate. I can’t help but wonder what a stalemate in this situation would look like

  13. bright-horizon on

    Questions:
    Why not make it like a a Kangaroo or ostrich instead? They can run faster and dogs are considered “bad” animals in the Middle East.
    Is there a 5th leg to hold arms ?
    Doesn’t it need a tail to balance ?

  14. Flat_Establishment_4 on

    They’re using these in Ukraine already with bombs strapped to their backs. This is old news.

  15. This was always the plan. What the farking else were you doing with a robot dog or a Terminator 2.0

  16. Fucking techbros are going to give the warmongers the end of the world we’ve been collectively dreaming about for 40 plus years.

  17. We imagine a technological nightmare dystopia, and then we set our best minds to work on making it happen. Just lean into it. Imagine walking through the woods in california in the 30s, not only avoiding the lions and the bears but the rogue batch of machine gun dogs that went awol in ’28, prowling and sniping anything that moves

  18. Why can’t we put human ingenuity to feeding and housing people, to fixing the fucking mess we’ve made of the environment. Why is it always to destroy shit and subjugate poor people so greedy people can further enrich themselves. Christ we’re the stupidest apes.