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The Chinese army’s newest recruit is a robot dog made by a start-up with funding from major venture capital firms.
The debut of the robo-dog, which the army has equipped with an assault rifle that it can fire, was a “major highlight” of joint exercises carried out by the People’s Liberation Army and Cambodia this month, according to Chinese state television.
It is based on a robot dog made by Unitree Robotics, formally called Hangzhou Yushu Technology, which has received…
