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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

They strapped an m4 on some servos on a robot dog with a rangefinder camera on top.

I would have expectedly a gun designed for the dog like some tank turret. This is less impressive than expected.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

From a product development viewpoint, the gun is an uninteresting part. It's better to use something that already has a mature production line and has been thoroughly field tested. It's the vision and control systems they are interested in developing, the gun is just the chosen end effector for this application.

Even when they're ready to start deploying systems like this, there's a lot of value in using compenents that the military already has a lot of spare parts for and that personnel know how to maintain. I wouldn't expect a custom gun until units like this are commonplace.

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