Mastodawn

WELP: Marines Test Fire Robot Dog Armed With Rocket Launcher

Buried lede: they used a cheap off-the-shelf Chinese consumer robot. And the Chinese and Russian armies have already tested that model with weapons.

A rocket launcher-toting robot dog could give Marines a valuable new way to remotely attack armored vehicles, especially in urban areas.

The Drive

The takeaway from watching "The Terminator" should NOT have been, "hey, how can we make that happen"

@cturnbow @cstross At long last we’ve created the Terminator from classic sci-fi movie whose message was “don’t invent the Terminator”.