China demonstrates robot dogs with machine guns

The robots are equipped with automatic rifles on their backs. Photo: Tan Chhin Sothi/AFP

China has demonstrated dystopian machine gun-carrying robotic combat dogs — further evidence of its rapidly growing military capabilities.

A pack of remote-controlled «robodogs» equipped with automatic rifles on their backs has been unveiled ​​previously during the joint military exercises «Golden Dragon» with Cambodia. this month.

Their trainers have only demonstrated their walking abilities and not their shooting abilities, but the existence of robotic fighting dogs underscores China's desire to develop smart, unmanned technology that could be a game-changer in the modern world. battlefields.

Intensive use of drones in the Ukrainian conflict signaled a changing nature of the war as militaries use more modern weapons.

According to Axios, the robot appears to have been created by Unitree, a Chinese company that advertises its products. online for thousands of dollars. 

It said the US Marine Corps was developing a sci-fi combat robot in the shape of a rocket goat.

Marines strapped a rocket launcher to a goat robot in California. in the desert last September, testing the vehicle's ability to carry and fire weapons in combat, the Military Times reported.

“Instead of a Marine operating the weapon system and manipulating the fuses, we could install a remote trigger mechanism. This allowed us to do all of this remotely,” 1st Lt. Aaron Safadi, the officer in charge of the group's new technology integration office, said at the time.

“The Marine can be in cover and stealth, the weapon system can move forward.” , and the Marine can manipulate the fuses from a safe location while allowing the weapon system to move closer to the target.»