Metalhead ... for real

One of the most disconcerting episodes in Black Mirror was Metalhead, a near future glimpse into the world of lethal robotic dogs programmed to kill on contact. Seems the real thing is available now, courtesy GhostRobotics, a vendor who customizes their tech to specific client needs.

Our Vision series robots will evolve into a portfolio of various sized systems for specific environments and price points covering government and enterprise users. Our Spirit series is for university and general R&D. In contrast, the future Wraith series will be focused on military applications where a cutting-edge mobile robot is necessary to meet the demands of warfighters and national security applications.

They’re unstoppable, with the ability to get right back up from any slip, fall, or failure and keep moving using our proprietary blind-mode operation. They have to because we design and build robots to keep humans and K9s out of harm’s way.

The "Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle" has materialized from your Black Mirror nightmares.

• A new autonomous weapon system combines a quadruped robot with a sniper rifle.
• SPUR is armed with a ten-shot rifle and a 30-power zoom.
• The weapon can only fire at a human operator's command, but it does remind us of a certain Black Mirror episode.

For now ...