While experts are campaigning for stricter regulations on killer robots, a military robot maker strapped a sniper rifle to the back of a quadrupedal robot dog.
and other state-of-the-art military equipment. Though SPUR is also intended for the battlefield, it's impossible not to acknowledge the elephant in the room, which is that robot dogs have so far predominantly been used in public spaces. Unlike war drones, quadrupedal robots have already been utilized for population control by law enforcement in countries such as Singapore, where a Boston Dynamics Spot robot was used toRobotics also has a controversy-baiting link to law enforcement in the U.
calling on the United Nations to place an outright ban on killer robots, stating that the majority of AI researchers ." The Stop Killer Robots Campaign has also gained traction in recent years and has been joined by such as Google after its involvement in Project Maven, which was aimed at enhancing U.S. military drone technology.says"the [SPUR] was specifically designed to offer precision fire from unmanned platforms such as the Ghost Robotics Vision-60 quadruped. Due to its highly capable sensors, the SPUR can operate in a magnitude of conditions, both day and night." Aside from that, little has been revealed in the way of SPUR's specifications.
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