Are China’s Big, Bad, Gun-Slinging Robot Dogs the Future of Warfare?

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Are China’s Big, Bad, Gun-Slinging Robot Dogs the Future of Warfare?
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In a future matchup between Chinese and American robotic capabilities, China might have an edge.

“dogs” that are equipped with rifles, primed and ready to take on urban combat operations for Beijing. Footage of the menacing machines in action have offered a glimpse into a future wherecan replace manpower in times of war—and stirred debate about what the United States could be up against in a conflict with

“If that’s what they really want to showcase, we shouldn’t be too concerned,” Jensen told The Daily Beast. “It’s a basic assault rifle, pretty crudely from the look of it attached to a knock-off robotic dog,” he added, referring to how the Chinese government’s robot dog sure looks a lot like“It’s like the worst of the worst knock-offs,” said Jensen, who is also a professor of strategic studies at the Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting.

China has traditionally struggled with using robots over complicated terrain, according to Christian Curriden, a defense analyst at RAND who focuses on China’s PLA research and development as well as artificial intelligence applications in the PLA. And that’s where the rubber will meet the road for robotics in broader military applications.

“We will never again trade blood for first contact,” Gen. James Rainey, the commanding general of Army Futures Command, told The new, mysterious project will get more autonomous systems in the line of fire and reduce the number of U.S. casualties in confrontations with adversaries like China. The hope is that the U.S. military can more easily and quickly update them, than, say, a tank. Clunky, outdated, and expensive war fighting is out—nimble, updatable, and cheap is in.

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