I have no idea how many robots Boston Dynamics actually sells each year, but I know they sure can make a viral video of one of their robots doing some pretty cool stuff. Perhaps the earliest example was their dog-like robots that could seemingly go anywhere. There was a lot of talk from the jump about equipping them with firearms and deploying them to various places.
After all, it’s a robot. If it gets shot and destroyed, no human is hurt, and the soldier operating it can just run another robot into combat. It might be expensive, but it’s not as expensive as losing American lives.
Well, it looks like China has stolen the idea and introduced their Temu version of weaponized robo-dogs.
THIS is the terrifying moment a pack of bloodthirsty robo-wolves storm a battlefield – as China readies its forces for an all-out invasion of Taiwan.
The menacing metal creatures – armed with automatic rifles and powered by AI – are designed to help Beijing land an amphibious assault on the neighbouring island.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) revealed that the techno-hounds will be part of a new strategy for arriving on the shores of Taiwan.
Leading the charge, the killing machines will form the first wave of attack as part of a drone-led invasion.
Chilling footage shown on state TV shows the cyber wolves charging ahead – spraying bullets while being flanked by Chinese soldiers.
They are believed to have a range of 1.2 miles from their control units, and are typically mounted in army lorries.
Beijing also claims the electronic wolves have a 92 per cent first-shot hit rate, and are able to dash through a 200-metre no-mans land in just 30 seconds.
Since the United States is likely to be knee-deep in defending Taiwan should China get froggy, this matters to us.
Of course, there are some things to keep in mind. First and foremost, this was probably stolen from either Boston Dynamics or someone like them. It even looks like the Boston Dynamics SpotMini.
China doesn’t create its own stuff so much as steal from the West.
Second, we need to remember that most nations in the world do the opposite of what the United States does. We understate our systems’ capabilities so that our potential enemies won’t know quite what we can do and won’t prepare sufficiently. Everyone else seems to overstate what they can to scare their enemies.
It doesn’t work on us, of course. We tend to just build stuff to counter what they say their stuff can do, only for us to find out in a face-to-face confrontation just how much better our weapon systems are than theirs. Just look at what happened in the Gulf War for a prime example of how that works out.
That said, this is a troubling development, even if it doesn’t have a 92 percent chance of hitting with the first shot or can’t range 1.2 miles from its operator. The reason is that while China has pretty tight information control, you can’t indefinitely hide war losses. With weapons like these, you can throw money at the problem instead of people, which could be useful for establishing a beachhead in the event of an amphibious assault on Taiwan.
Of course, those are all made in China, so we might not need to worry too much about it, but still…
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