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The four-legged robot was armed with an M72 shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket launcher in testing by the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command and scientists with the Office of Naval Research.

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[–] LemmySoloHer 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is a baaaaad idea.

I'm sorry.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Ewe disgust me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] Wootz 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot 5 points 11 months ago

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The robot in the picture looks like a Unitree Go1: https://www.unitree.com/en/go1/
This is remarkable because according to the Unitree website they are a Chinese company.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Probably because that's an blindingly obvious Chinese knockoff of Boston Dynamics' Spot. BD doesn't want to sell weapons but the USMC still wanted to try out their ideas so they found a company with fewer ethics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

So, friendly fire incoming?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No beard no goat. This is a killer Robot dog.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It identifies as a goat. Please don't misspecies it.

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot 8 points 11 months ago

At first I was going to say I was surprised there were still any functional LAW's in inventory, but then I remembered we were talking about the Corps.

Those things were probably army stock that got handed down to the national guard, then donated to the ANA, later recovered from ISIS, sat in the bottom of a ship for a couple years, then issued to the Marines.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Did they test it in the Goat Simulator first?

[–] logicbomb 5 points 11 months ago

Nice choice reporting this nightmare fuel on Halloween.

[–] dyathinkhesaurus 3 points 11 months ago

GOAT rocket launcher