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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[-] LemmySoloHer@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 21 points 10 months ago

That is a baaaaad idea.

I'm sorry.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 points 10 months ago

Ewe disgust me.

[-] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Love it

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Fuck yes.

[-] Wootz@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Metal Gear?!

[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear!

[-] xep@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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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[-] steltek@lemm.ee 6 points 10 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.

[-] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

So, friendly fire incoming?

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Flabbergassed@artemis.camp 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 8 points 10 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.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Nice choice reporting this nightmare fuel on Halloween.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 10 months ago

Did they test it in the Goat Simulator first?

[-] dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

GOAT rocket launcher

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