{"id":129112,"date":"2021-10-17T07:44:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/armed-with-remote-controlled-rifles-military-robot-dogs-are-now-on-the-move"},"modified":"2021-10-17T07:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:44:19","slug":"armed-with-remote-controlled-rifles-military-robot-dogs-are-now-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/armed-with-remote-controlled-rifles-military-robot-dogs-are-now-on-the-move","title":{"rendered":"Armed with remote-controlled rifles, military robot dogs are now on the move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/armed-with-remote-controlled-rifles-military-robot-dogs-are-now-on-the-move.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The robot dog has a remote-controlled rifle attached to its back as a human operator can control it via an Android tablet. The robot has been named the SPUR, which stands for Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle.<\/p>\n<p>It features a 6.5mm Creedmoor rifle, from military defense company SWORD International, on top of a Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicle (QUGV) developed by Ghost Robotics.<\/p>\n<p>The SPUR was first displayed at the US Army\u2019s annual convention in Washington DC on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It is thought to be the first example of an unmanned system with a weapon attached, according to The Drive.<\/p>\n<p>The robot has day and night vision and the ability to shoot bullets out to 1,200 meters.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robot dog has a remote-controlled rifle attached to its back as a human operator can control it via an Android tablet. The robot has been named the SPUR, which stands for Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle. It features a 6.5mm Creedmoor rifle, from military defense company SWORD International, on top of a Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}