The following report is by Futurism’s The Byte:
The footage shows a sizable octocopter drone dropping off its armed payload on a rooftop in an urban area. The robodog then springs to life and stretches its legs.
The robot appears to be carrying a modified, semiautomatic assault rifle, which has been the service rifle for the People’s Liberation Army and paramilitary agencies in China since 1995.
The clip was shared by an account called Kestrel Defense Blood-Wing on Chinese social media. According to a rough Google translation of the account’s description of the video, “war dogs” that “descend from the sky” can be “directly inserted into the weak links behind the enemy to carry out surprise attacks,” be delivered “to the top of enemy buildings,” or provide fire suppression.
Needless to say, it’s a controversial use of the technology. Just this week, Boston Dynamics, maker of the popular Spot Mini robodog, which bears a striking resemblance to the robot in the video, announced a pledge to never weaponize any of its robots.
That hasn’t stopped others from arming quadruped robots. Several US defense contractors have shown off prototypes of four-legged robots carrying large weapons.
And last year, a Russian tinkerer strapped a submachine gun to a Chinese robodog, firing off rounds after rounds in an alarming video.
It’s unclear if we’ll ever see robot dogs being air dropped from the sky via drones — but, as the video demonstrates, the technology definitely already exists.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
A man will observe that the highest forms of man’s wisdom, knowledge, and education, all eventually result in who and what can kill, subjugate, and make people lazy.
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs 27:20
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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