New 'dogs of war' shoot down drones with AI guns
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The US military is experimenting with “robot dogs”—four-legged robots that can scamper over rough terrain. The latest such “dog” is a perfect reflection of the new cyberpunk warfare emerging from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (characterized by drones, jamming, hacking, and robots).
The Army this month deployed a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Quadrupedal-Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV) to the Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center in Saudi Arabia, according to a photo released by the Army that the Pentagon isn’t talking about, other than to say that the picture shows one of 16 “counter-drone platforms” being tested there.
The photo shows the “dog” equipped with an AR-15/M16-pattern rifle on a rotating turret controlled by AI.
Let’s be very clear about how crazy this is — i.e., how different this weapon is compared with what anyone could conceive of just a few years ago.
This semi-autonomous robot would accompany special forces and use AI to target drones that are themselves controlled by AI (to defeat jamming technology).
Stated another way: An AI dog is designed to shoot down an AI bird that’s carrying a bomb or camera.
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