China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs
China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs
It looks like something out of the dystopian show “Black Mirror,” but it’s just the latest adaptation of robotics for the modern battlefield.
Coming soon to a western military near you...
And naturally it's a reverse-engineered BD Spot, likely even down to the software. Why put money into R&D when your adversaries do it for you?
I don’t think Bungie was making an assessment of the Chinese or anyone else with this detail, but in the Halo series the leader race of the alien religious collective called The Covenant initially achieved their power by reverse engineering and then utilizing the technology of an ancient galaxy conquering civilization. The human species, which based on the time period likely is very analogous to the US military, found that to be a big weakness because once they acquired some of the tech they were able to use it to improve on their own tools and weapons, but the Covenant never did because the ancient aliens were viewed as gods by them.
Not sure if i had a point but I thought it was a fun connection
Yeah, except in this situation the covenant send their member species to school on Earth to learn how to adapt the technology too.
It's the Chinese way.
And TBF it does just make sense when you're a nation with huge manufacturing capabilities up against someone with far stronger research capabilities.
So the Chinese military has caught up to 2018 American YouTubers?
Doesn't even piss beer I bet
I don't find that scarier than the cheap suicide quad copters we've seen in Ukraine.
You probably should. Cheap suicide quad copters have a much more difficult time getting into things like basements.
Check out what Onyx Industries is doing with MARSOC if you want to get a glimpse of something much more advanced than this. Threat detection, tracking and characterization, along with precision shots, autonomous operation, and capable of working in gps denied environments. Vs the spot knockoff with a go pro. I know who I'm betting on.
It reminds me of a Black Mirror episode
See episode "Metalhead".
The gun is basically duck taped to clone robot dog. Reloading mechanism is just human. Lousy propaganda.
ah sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension
This looks awful. The rifle keeps going up and down while it is walking, no stabilization and they didnt show any accuracy data. You might as well ducktape a rifle to a roomba.
Aiming at targets far away is very hard. Even if it has to stop to shoot, how does it aim? By moving the body of a giant robot dog? That doesnt seem it has the sensitivity it needs. If the rifle is moving that much during walking, how can you accurately aim at anything, since you dont know where the rifle will be aiming when you stop? The camera seems to be on the robot and not on the rifle and everything is jiggling.
Also why even use a full goddamn rifle? You wont have a human holding it, you can just use a modified barrel basically. Are they not embarrassed by how bad this looks? Are they so clueless?
Y'all need to watch laowhy86 and serpentza on YT as well as their OG "The China Show" ( and not the Bloomberg copy-crap CCPPCC kowtowing ). China Fact Chasers on YT has clips if you dont have time for long form content.
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