TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoRobotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Armyinterestingengineering.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1258arrow-down16
arrow-up1252arrow-down1external-linkRobotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Armyinterestingengineering.comTheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squareEarthwormjim91@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoWell, yeah. That was the goal of creating all of these. Hell, Boston Dynamics was originally funded heavily by DARPA. BigDog, AlphaDog, LittleDog, and LS3 were all funded by DARPA and designed for military use. This is old anyway. They were strapping guns to the ghost robotics dogs as far back as 2021. https://www.popsci.com/technology/ghost-robotics-robot-dog-gun-lethal/
Well, yeah. That was the goal of creating all of these.
Hell, Boston Dynamics was originally funded heavily by DARPA. BigDog, AlphaDog, LittleDog, and LS3 were all funded by DARPA and designed for military use.
This is old anyway. They were strapping guns to the ghost robotics dogs as far back as 2021. https://www.popsci.com/technology/ghost-robotics-robot-dog-gun-lethal/