Brad Lendon and Nectar Gan, CNNWireDuring recent military drills with Cambodia, China's military showed off a robot dog with an automatic rifle mounted on its back.
"It can serve as a new member in our urban combat operations, replacing our members to conduct reconnaissance and identify enemy and strike the target," a soldier identified as Chen Wei says in a video from state broadcaster CCTV. In 2020, the US Air Force demonstrated how it used robotic dogs as one link in its Advanced Battle Management System , which uses artificial intelligence and rapid data analytics to detect and counter threats to US military assets.