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Uh Oh, They Strapped a Sniper Rifle to a Robot Dog

posted by martyb on Thursday October 14 2021, @01:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the Sit!-Stay!-Aim!-Shoot!-Good(?)-doggie! dept.

upstart writes:

Uh Oh, They Strapped a Sniper Rifle to a Robot Dog:

For years, we've been warning that it was only a matter of time — and now, the inevitable has happened.

Somebody strapped an honest-to-god sniper rifle to the back of a quadrupedal robot dog.

An image shared on Twitter by military robot maker Ghost Robotics shows the terrifying contraption in all its dystopian glory.

Latest lethality 6.5 #creedmoor sniper payload from @SWORDINT. Check out the latest partner payloads @AUSAorg Wash DC. Keeping US and allied #sof #warfighter equipped with the latest innovations. @USSOCOM #defense #defence #NationalSecurity #drone #robotics pic.twitter.com/Dvk6OvL3Bu

— Ghost Robotics (@Ghost_Robotics) October 11, 2021

[...] There's a lot we don't know about the machine, but according to an Instagram post by Sword International, a gun manufacturer, the machine is called the SPUR or Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle.

More at the Sword's website [Ed Comment: Link is sometimes giving 404 since this story was released--JR].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @03:16AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @03:16AM (#1186859)

    ..and it might be news to /some/ people (..who need to get their damn faces out of a smartphone..) that Drones were killing people in Afghanistan around 20 years ago...

  • (Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday October 14 2021, @03:25AM (3 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Thursday October 14 2021, @03:25AM (#1186862)

    The issue here is that the machine looks like a pet. What's disturbing is that emotions are raised by the looks of the machine rather than the fact that people get killed by machines.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:21AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:21AM (#1186884)

      I'm thinking a Law should be passed so that all autonomous machines with lethal capacity should have a large single red HAL9000 eye...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @08:45AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @08:45AM (#1186924)

        They'd just put a set of eyelashes on it.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday October 15 2021, @02:06PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday October 15 2021, @02:06PM (#1187271) Journal

      So you say they should had given it a pit bull look?

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.