Video: China’s Gun-Toting Robot Dog Gets Dropped Off by Drone

A four-legged robotic in China that appears much like Boston Dynamics’ Spot has gone viral once more on platforms like Twitter and Reddit, however this time there are a few new twists. The machine may be transported through drone, in accordance with the brand new video. And, maybe most significantly, the robotic has a gun attachment on high.

Where did the video initially come from? Before hitting U.S.-based social media websites, the video was first uploaded to the verified Weibo web page of China Kestrel Defense, which incorporates the English phrases “Blood-Wing” within the upper-right nook. As The Drive notes, it’s not clear what “Blood-Wing” is meant to be in reference to, but it surely actually will get your consideration!

The drone, which Kestrel calls the Red Wing, can journey behind enemy traces and conduct a “suprise attack” by dropping the robotic canine, in accordance with the protection firm. And these four-legged robots are certainly meant to appear to be canines.

“War dogs descending from the sky, air assault, Red Wing Forward heavy-duty drones deliver combat robot dogs, which can be directly inserted into the weak link behind the enemy to launch a surprise attack or can be placed on the roof of the enemy to occupy the commanding heights to suppress firepower,” the caption to the video says in accordance with an English-language translation.

“And ground troops conduct a three-dimensional pincer attack on the enemy in the building,” the caption continues.

China’s robots typically go viral on English-language social media, however whereas they had been beforehand carrying silly little hats and dancing round in unison, they’ve taken a considerably darker path lately. And given the elevated tensions of the New Cold War—with the U.S. and its allies on one aspect, and Russia, China, and Iran on the opposite—it’s straightforward to see why movies of lethal robots seize the web’s consideration.

Boston Dynamics, after all, is the identify most intently related to America’s potential robotic rebellion, on condition that Atlas can do backflips and is actually fairly agile lately. But Boston Dynamics isn’t the one making tomorrow’s robo-killers for American troopers. In reality, Boston Dynamics pledged to not make any deadly machines simply final week.

But the U.S. navy is doing their very own improvement, together with a lot much less agile robot-controlled loss of life units just like the Multi Utility Tactical Transport (MUTT) seen beneath in 2016.

And whereas MUTT may be much less agile, Ghost Robotics additionally makes a model of what appears like Spot for the U.S. navy. Granted, its Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) aren’t being displayed with highly effective weapons simply but.

We’re certain the U.S. navy will get round to it in the end. It’s solely a matter of time.