Unmanned Combat Ground Vehicle

Are there line charge carrying ugvs? You can hold a few in reserve for a quick breach attempt compared to mine rollers. You can also clear a whole treeline/trench line at a time if the UGV moves fast enough.

UGVs from Kestrel Defense. The one in the lower right-hand corner sports a new remote weapon station that integrates grenade launchers.

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Two drawings of Kestrel systems not shown at the expo, possibly still under development.

How much weight can the unifree dogbots haul? Imagine dozens of these suicide bombers galloping at your lines. At night.

This is tangentially related, but I can see military applications somewhere down the road, such as conducting reconnaissance and inspecting turbines and other equipment in confined spaces. Researchers from Beihang University developed a fast-moving untethered micro-robot. Untethered means the robot carries its own power supply and control electronics, whereas previous attempts required the robots to be connected to an external power supply and controls like old-fashioned wire-controlled toy cars.

Abstract: Running speed degradation of insect-scale (less than 5 cm) legged micro- robots after carrying payloads has become a bottleneck for microrobots to achieve high untethered locomotion performance. In this work, we present a 2-cm legged microrobot (BHMbot, BeiHang Microrobot) with ultrafast untethered running speeds, which is facilitated by the complementary com- bination of bouncing length and bouncing frequency in the microrobot’s running gait. The untethered BHMbot (2-cm-long, 1760 mg) can achieve a running speed of 17.5 BL s−1 and a turning centripetal acceleration of 65.4 BL s−2 at a Cost of Transport of 303.7 and a power consumption of 1.77 W. By con- trolling its two front legs independently, the BHMbot demonstrates various locomotion trajectories including circles, rectangles, letters and irregular paths across obstacles through a wireless control module. Such advancements enable the BHMbot to carry out application attempts including sound signal detection, locomotion inside a turbofan engine and transportation via a quadrotor.

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plawolf said:

How much weight can the unifree dogbots haul? Imagine dozens of these suicide bombers galloping at your lines. At night.

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It would be a scary thought. Or hundreds of these suicide robodogs doing a high speed swarm attack on a firebase.

plawolf said:

How much weight can the unifree dogbots haul? Imagine dozens of these suicide bombers galloping at your lines. At night.

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Why don't just use drone? There is a decent chance to take out a unitree dog even with an assault rifle.

kriss said:

Why don't just use drone? There is a decent chance to take out a unitree dog even with an assault rifle.

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You're gonna need a very big drone to carry the guns and it's going to push the drone around when shooting. The dogbot is better for handling recoil and is low observable on the ground. It's also disposable so it's fine.

funny that people would ask about dogbot, because this is happening already in large scale. So much so that they brought it to an exercise with Cambodia


future of warfare lol. Robot dogs and drones do all the firing

and if you want to see dogbot swarm, this should be to your fancy

You can easily tell if a drone is taken out of action when it falls out of the sky. With a dog, not so much, especially if squatting is one of it's modes.