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Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, yeah. That was the goal of creating all of these.

Hell, Boston Dynamics was originally funded heavily by DARPA. BigDog, AlphaDog, LittleDog, and LS3 were all funded by DARPA and designed for military use.

This is old anyway. They were strapping guns to the ghost robotics dogs as far back as 2021. https://www.popsci.com/technology/ghost-robotics-robot-dog-gun-lethal/