{"id":192015,"date":"2024-06-28T20:24:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T01:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/video-shows-chinas-rifle-equipped-robot-dog-opening-fire-on-targets"},"modified":"2024-06-28T20:24:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T01:24:30","slug":"video-shows-chinas-rifle-equipped-robot-dog-opening-fire-on-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/video-shows-chinas-rifle-equipped-robot-dog-opening-fire-on-targets","title":{"rendered":"Video Shows China\u2019s Rifle-Equipped Robot Dog Opening Fire on Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/video-shows-chinas-rifle-equipped-robot-dog-opening-fire-on-targets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China has released video footage of its rifle-toting robot dogs, and it\u2019s about as scary as you were probably imagining.<\/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\/YMnkqY98Cyo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/world\/archives\/2024\/05\/17\/2003818006\" class=\"\"><em>Agence France-Presse<\/em> reported<\/a> that China had <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/china-robot-dogs-machine-guns\" class=\"\">flaunted<\/a> the gun-carrying robodogs in a 15-day joint military exercise with Cambodia dubbed the \u201cGolden Dragon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And if images of the literal killing machines weren\u2019t troubling enough, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YMnkqY98Cyo\" class=\"\">new video<\/a> of the robots released yesterday by the state-owned broadcaster <em>China Central Television<\/em> shows the killing machine dutifully hopping and diving, leading teams in reconnaissance, and shooting its back-strapped machine gun at targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has released video footage of its rifle-toting robot dogs, and it\u2019s about as scary as you were probably imagining. Last week, Agence France-Presse reported that China had flaunted the gun-carrying robodogs in a 15-day joint military exercise with Cambodia dubbed the \u201cGolden Dragon.\u201d And if images of the literal killing machines weren\u2019t troubling enough, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192015","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\/192015","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}