Twitter video of a four-legged robot dog with a gun strapped to its back went viral this week. Video shows the robot dog firing multiple rounds with recoil.
, the robodog in question is a cheap model built by UnitreeYusu and the weapon is most likely a PP-19 Vityaz.tracked the dog and gun to a Russian businessman who builds hoverbikes. The conclusion is that the guy is just a tech enthusiast who likes to go to the shooting range and built a weird gun-enabled bot for fun. In other words, it doesn't seem like he's actively planning a war.
There's really no denying the fear caused by the ominous sound of robodog feet followed by gunshots, but it's not the worst of its kind by a long shot. There totally. Those are surely better built than the bot in the clip, which seemed unable to shoot accurately because it couldn't handle the recoil.
In other words, the viral robodog with a gun might be scary — but what the professionals are cooking up is almost certainly worse.
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