cleared to fire, and then the rocket-propelled grenade launches off the goat’s back. (While most quadrupedal robots of this size are referred to as robot dogs, the Marine Corps referred to the ...

Justin Marty/Marine Corps) Marines strapped a rocket launcher to a so-called robotic goat in the California desert in September, in a test of robots’ abilities to carry and fire weapons in battle.

Though they called it a robot goat, the device looks suspiciously like Unitree’s quadruped robot dog. It was sporting an M72 Light Anti-Tank Weapon (LAW) rocket launcher, a popular lightweight ...