We first met robot dogs with Boston Dynamics’ Spot, which made a big impression on the internet. Spot, which divides people into two separate groups and has quite fluent movements compared to the robots we are accustomed to in the current time, was seen as very sweet and cute by some, but frightened the other group.
The second group, which fears that robots will overtake humanity and influence the world, now has a very strong reason to fear it, such as the military robot manufacturer Ghost Robotics’ robot named SPUR.
It may look cool, but you’re looking at a gun that can hit its target from 1.2 km away:
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Ghost Robotics and SWORD International collaborated on the system called SPUR (Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle). In the system in question, the 6.5 millimeter Creedmoor rifle was mounted on a quadrupedal robot named Q-UGV.
Introduced on October 11, Q-UGV robots are already in use in certain parts of the US Air Force, albeit in limited numbers. In addition, work continues at full speed for the further development of these robots. Detailed information on how many bullets the robots take in total or how their systems such as reloading work has not been shared yet.
Talking about the subject, Ghost Robotics said that the first bullet about the remotely controlled SPUR can be driven into the bullet chamber with a remote command and the safety can be turned on and off remotely in the same way. It is stated that the range of the weapon is 1.2 km.
For the next step in the development of robots, authorities are targeting artificial intelligence-assisted autonomy. With this autonomy, SPUR will be able to lock and attack potential threats.
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