Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Rifles in Middle East
Military.com | By Jared Keller
Updated October 01, 2024 at 2:35 pm | Published October 01, 2024 at 11:23am ET
The Army has sent at least one "robot dog" armed with an artificial intelligence-enabled gun turret to the Middle East for testing as a fresh counter-drone capability for U.S. service members, service officials confirmed.
Photos published to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service last week show a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Quadrupedal-Unmanned Ground Vehicle, or Q-UGV, armed with what appears to be an AR-15/M16-pattern rifle on rotating turret undergoing "rehearsals" at the Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center in Saudi Arabia in mid-September as part of a recent counter-unmanned aerial system exercise.
The specialized gun turret, which features a large electro-optical targeting system with "Lone Wolf" emblazoned across the side, appears to be the same "artificial intelligence-enabled" system that the Army recently put through its paces during Operation Hard Kill, a separate counter-UAS exercise led by the service's Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York, in August.
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