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Marines Test Rocket-Carrying 'Robotic Goat' at Twentynine Palms (timesofsandiego.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

So, friendly fire incoming?