During recent military drills with Cambodia, China’s military showed off their cute little robot dog. Man’s best robot friend walks, hops, lies down, and moves backward under the control of a remote operator.
Adorable.
It also has an automatic rifle mounted on its back.
They made man’s best robot friend into an armed assassin.
“It can serve as a new member in our urban combat operations, replacing our (human) members to conduct reconnaissance and identify (the) enemy and strike the target,” a soldier identified as Chen Wei says in a video from state broadcaster CCTV.
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Is it built as good as their abandoned brand new high rise apartments made out of chicken wire and stucco?
And eventually one day, hackers will find a way to take control of those. Use them for murder which will be seen as an accident a computer glitch, or they could turn them against our own military. Every few weeks hackers manage to hack things you would think are totally secure. Eventually they will hack military robots and drones and… Read more »