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Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Now Being Tested By Marine Special Operators (Updated) (1 Viewer)

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Its over people. hook them up with AI and we have Terminator Model 001. :eek::eek::eek:
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Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Now Being Tested By Marine Special Operators (Updated)

MARSOC is using robotic dogs equipped with remote weapon stations to detect targets automatically before being given approval to fire.
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he United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) looks to be the first organization within the U.S. military to be using rifle-wielding "robot dogs." Other armed robotic K-9s have been explored by the U.S. military and shown off by foreign countries, in the recent past.
Eric Shell, head of business development at Onyx Industries which supplied the gun system for the dogs, confirmed to TWZ on the floor of SOF Week that they are in use with MARSOC. Shell noted that MARSOC has two robot dogs fitted with gun systems based on Onyx's SENTRY remote weapon system (RWS) — one in 7.62x39mm caliber, and another in 6.5mm Creedmoor caliber. It's unclear precisely how many other robotic dogs MARSOC may have at present, however, it appears likely that the two equipped with SENTRY are being tested by the command.
Video footage released by Onyx Industries showing one of MARSOC's robot dogs can be seen here.
MARSOC seen in Onyx Industries' video linked above. <em>Onyx Industries</em>

MARSOC seen in Onyx Industries' video linked above. Onyx Industries
According to Shell, MARSOC's four-legged friends are "doing tunnel work, as well as perimeter security," but he could not specify where precisely.
The underlying robot dog doing this tunnel work for MARSOC is Ghost Robotics' Vision 60 quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicle, or Q-UGV, Shell said.
Ghost Robotics describes its Q-UGV as a "mid-sized high-endurance, agile and durable all-weather ground drone for use in a broad range of unstructured urban and natural environments for defense, homeland and enterprise applications." Vision 60 is designed for tasks such as remote inspection, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) missions, mapping, distributed communications, and persistent security. The company has worked with various entities to explore different defense and security applications for Q-UGV in the past, which you can read more about in this past War Zone feature.
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I'm all for it. As long as other countries also have them. It would be great to have robot wars, with little to no human casualties.
 
Of course, it HAD to be "robot dogs" ---- you couldn't trust a robot CAT with a rifle now, could ya?
 
The people who think these will be used to shoot other robots are woefully naive.

These will be used on people. Then those people will get their hands on a few, and use them against us, and then we will cry that we did nothing to deserve people using the robots we invented to kill them, on us.

That's a best case scenario with no AI involvement.
 
Ginger Ale said:
I'm all for it. As long as other countries also have them. It would be great to have robot wars, with little to no human casualties.
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Unfortunately it would probably turn into like, one of those dystopian movies where warlords and middle tier powers would use them to oppress and control massive numbers of poor people.

Any country that could afford to field an effective number of combat robots could basically brutalize anyone around them at almost no cost or risk to themselves.

I actually don't think they would be very useful in conventional warfare. They would be really effective against people that don't have them. I know the cops have already looked into police bots.

For that matter Israel already uses robots to patrol just inside the border fence for Gaza.
 
Call me when the navy puts freakin lasers on sharks heads.
 
zincwarrior said:
Its over people. hook them up with AI and we have Terminator Model 001. :eek::eek::eek:
www.twz.com

Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Now Being Tested By Marine Special Operators (Updated)

MARSOC is using robotic dogs equipped with remote weapon stations to detect targets automatically before being given approval to fire.
www.twz.com www.twz.com
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Those things have been around for quite a while in the alpha stage but they were usually unarmed. As far as AI maybe they will have actual AI and not these algorithm kiddies running about.
 
Ikari said:
It's like no one has seen the documentary Terminator.
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Americans have some pretty different attitudes about robots than Japan.
 
Great, let's make cops and soldiers even less accountable for murdering people.
 
Deuce said:
Great, let's make cops and soldiers even less accountable for murdering people.
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Yeah, you tell 'em. Much better to make them go in and get murdered themselves.
 
This is the only breed of dog Kristi Noem should be allowed to own. Next time it'll be a fair fight, dammit.


I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
Who I overran with my power mower,
One leg is missing, the other is gone,
The third one is scattered all over the lawn,
There's no need explaining the one remaining
Is out on the carport floor!

I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
Who I overran before.
 
Noodlegawd said:
Yeah, you tell 'em. Much better to make them go in and get murdered themselves.
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A cop getting shot is, in fact, better than a child getting shot for holding a spoon.
 
Deuce said:
A cop getting shot is, in fact, better than a child getting shot for holding a spoon.
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That's gotta be the most bizarre comment I've seen this week, and that's saying a lot.
 
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