Robot dogs are no longer experimental in China.

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Robot dogs are no longer experimental in China. They’re training with actual soldiers, right now: in combat, recon, and support roles. The era of the hybrid human-machine infantry has arrived…
By Mal July 26, 2026
https://community.whatfinger.com/2026/07/26/robot-dogs-are-no-longer-experimental-in-china-theyre-training-with-actual-soldiers-right-now-in-combat-recon-and-support-roles-the-era-of-the-hybrid-human-machine-infantry-has-arrived/

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/2081429339065999585


Chinese AI video: The terrifying face of future warfare

https://twitter.com/MariosKaratzias/status/2081336678258524494

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Robot dogs are no longer experimental toys. They’re already training with Chinese soldiers in combat, recon, and support roles—and the rest of the world’s militaries are scrambling to catch up.

The era of hybrid human-machine infantry isn’t coming. It’s here. As the Whatfinger Community post put it on July 26, 2026: robot dogs are training with actual PLA troops right now. That observation, sparked by recent footage circulating from Chinese exercises, is the tip of a very large, very metal iceberg.

China has moved past the “look how cool this is” phase. In April 2026, state media and Western outlets including CNN showed PLA units running urban warfare drills with armed robot dogs and attack drones clearing mock cities ahead of infantry. The machines take the first hits through alleys, bunkers, and barbed wire so flesh-and-blood soldiers don’t have to. Similar exercises have covered chemical defense reconnaissance, airdrops onto rooftops, and coordinated “wolf pack” advances where quadrupeds lead or flank human squads.

Some platforms carry machine guns. Others, like the PF-070 unveiled at the World Defense Show 2026 in Riyadh, mount anti-tank guided missiles with electro-optical targeting and ranges measured in kilometers. These systems lean heavily on commercial platforms (Unitree and others) adapted through China’s military-civil fusion model. They’re relatively cheap, produced at scale, and already operating in semi-autonomous modes under human oversight. The PLA is treating them as expendable, networked nodes that extend infantry reach while reducing political and human costs.


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[rustynail]

What do they taste like?

[rmc51]

China’s Robot Dogs Have Been Armed With Missiles
ByAmir Husain, Feb 18, 2026, 07:21pm EST
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amirhusain/2026/02/18/chinas-robot-dogs-have-been-armed-with-missiles/

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In cities, narrow terrain and reduced standoff distances make main battle tanks tactically awkward. Anti-tank guided missile teams, meanwhile, expose their operators. A robot carrying those same missiles, operating ahead of the infantry line, low to the ground, with a reduced thermal signature and no crew to protect, changes the calculus meaningfully. The missile itself isn't new. The delivery vehicle is.


The United States has been active in this space too, though differently. Ghost Robotics' Vision 60 has been tested in the CENTCOM area of operations, armed with an AI-enabled rifle turret optimized for counter-drone missions. The Marine Corps has demonstrated robot dogs carrying M72 anti-armor rockets. American systems tend to be positioned for counter-UAS, reconnaissance and support roles rather than direct anti-armor fire. Whether that reflects strategic choice, institutional inertia, or principled restraint around autonomous lethal systems depends on who you ask, and the honest answer is probably some combination of all three.


Armed quadrupeds are now a global phenomenon. Ukraine has committed to deploying robot dog units on the frontline. Russia displayed an RPG-armed version as early as 2022. The CENTCOM theater has seen live testing by multiple actors. The technology is operational, proliferating, and being exported. Notably, China has already been exporting the operational concept, not just the hardware. At the SCO's "Interaction-2024" counter-terrorism exercise in Xinjiang, rifle-armed robot dogs operated alongside troops from all ten member states, including Pakistan. For countries in China's strategic orbit, exposure to these systems in joint exercises is the first step toward eventual procurement.




 
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The Robot Dog Is on Patrol. And It’s Just Getting Started.
by Thomas Frey | Apr 1, 2026
https://futuristspeaker.com/artificial-intelligence/the-robot-dog-is-on-patrol-and-its-just-getting-started/

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From data center perimeters to military forward positions, four-legged robots are reshaping what security means — and raising questions nobody has fully answered yet

Man’s New Best Friend
In November 2024, a photograph surfaced that quietly captured the state of where we are: a Boston Dynamics Spot robot, deployed by the U.S. Secret Service, patrolling the grounds of Mar-a-Lago ahead of the then-President-elect’s arrival. Four legs. No face. Sensors where eyes would be. Moving with that slightly uncanny fluidity that robot dogs have — efficient, tireless, and completely indifferent to the Florida heat.

Nobody issued a press release. The image just appeared, circulated briefly, and then the news cycle moved on. But that moment was more significant than it was treated as being. The robotic dog had arrived not as a novelty or a demonstration — but as operational infrastructure, quietly normalized, deployed at the highest level of executive protection in the country.

That normalization is accelerating rapidly. What began as viral YouTube videos of a four-legged machine opening doors and dancing to “Uptown Funk” has become a serious, growing industry with billion-dollar implications across private security, critical infrastructure, law enforcement, and military operations. The robotic dog is no longer a curiosity. It is a platform — and the question of what gets mounted on that platform is one of the more important technology policy conversations of this decade.


The question for the decade ahead isn’t whether these machines will be central to how we think about security. They already are. The question is what kind of security we want them to provide, in whose hands, under whose authority, and with what limits on what they’re allowed to do when they decide — or are told — that a threat requires more than just watching.




 
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[berdie]

Although the technology is amazing...it's kind of creepy. 

[DefiantMassRINO]

Which country they steal this technology from?

... and does that country still foolishly trade with them and import university students from them?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FWGT02ZpJ0

[Bigun]

I wonder if they will cook those alive like they do real dogs.

[bigheadfred]

I wonder if they will cook those alive like they do real dogs.

I was just going to ask? Do they taste like chicken? 

[Bigun]

I was just going to ask? Do they taste like chicken? 

I don't know! I had to politely leave before I killed somebody.