The sight of the gun-equipped dog robot ‘patrolling’ the garden and shooting a rifle at a target left everyone horrified. In the footage shared on many social media platforms, a robot dog was seen circling a shooting range. Many said that the robot gave hints about what future wars would look like. But a study revealed that this is just a ‘dangerous toy’.
NAMED AS ‘KILLER ROBOT’! THE IMAGES ARE SCARY FOR THE FUTURE
According to the news of the British Daily Star newspaper, the images that first appeared on YouTube in March showed a robot dog walking eerily in the garden before opening fire on two targets with a gun. The dog has been called the ‘killer robot’ by many commenters on the internet. Those who watched the footage, where the dog opened fire with the rifle on his back, were terrified and experienced great fear. Initially, people feared that the robot dog was a new product of Boston Dynamics, the famous robot company known for its ‘dancing robot’ videos. However, with the research, everything was understood.
All the people who laughed off the “worrywarts” years ago for freaking out about the Funny Dancing Robot Dogs ™ should be forced to watch this video once a day for the remainder of the year. pic.twitter.com/WBIrlGah3w
— Sean Chiplock (@sonicmega) July 20, 2022
JUST A “DANGEROUS TOY” AVAILABLE
The research showed that the armed robot dog is just a ‘dangerous toy’ rather than mass-produced. Reporters at VICE followed the trail of the armed dog robot to the founder of a Russian hoverbike company. Later, they began to think that he was attaching a regular rifle to a robot dog. It turned out that the robot dog was actually a copy of Boston Dynamics’ products rather than a product. By the way, it is also said that the gun, which is a Russian-made submachine gun, is not under the control of the dog, but is actually connected to the dog by remote control.
THERE ARE OTHER ROBOT DOGS WITH DEADLY WEAPONS
So, this specially armed robot dog is nothing to worry humanity. At least for now. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other robot dogs with deadly weapons. Because in October, Ghost Robotics, a US company, introduced a killer robot dog equipped with a sniper rifle that can hit targets 1.2 km away.