{"id":184189,"date":"2024-03-02T05:22:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/machine-gun-wielding-robot-dogs-are-better-sharpshooters-claims-study"},"modified":"2024-03-02T05:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:22:35","slug":"machine-gun-wielding-robot-dogs-are-better-sharpshooters-claims-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/machine-gun-wielding-robot-dogs-are-better-sharpshooters-claims-study","title":{"rendered":"Machine gun-wielding robot dogs are better sharpshooters, claims study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-bgad3HRb64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new Chinese study claims that machine gun-armed robot dogs are as accurate as trained human marksmen. If true, we could be about to witness a revolution of sorts in urban warfare.<\/p>\n<p>The study conducted by Xu Cheng and his team \u201cdemonstrates the feasibility of a legged strike platform,\u201d reports The South China Morning Post (SCMP).<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal <em>The Chinese Journal of Engineering<\/em> last month. Cheng is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Chinese study claims that machine gun-armed robot dogs are as accurate as trained human marksmen. If true, we could be about to witness a revolution of sorts in urban warfare. The study conducted by Xu Cheng and his team \u201cdemonstrates the feasibility of a legged strike platform,\u201d reports The South China Morning Post [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184189","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\/184189","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\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}