New armed robot dog can be deployed 'behind the enemy' with a drone

A video of a Chinese-made drone and 'robot dog' armed with a machine gun is sending chills down the spines of pretty much everyone.

The video, which originated from Chinese social media app Weibo, is now being compared to a particularly grim episode of Netflix's Black Mirror called 'Metalhead'.

If you've seen any Black Mirror episode then you'll have an understandable concern for the future.

The show often casts a dystopian view of what could happen and he does this through extrapolating technology we have today.

And this one is starting to hit very close to home.

One Twitter user said: "Wasn’t this a Black Mirror episode?"

Another added: "[This] was already available on that episode of Black Mirror, everything depicted on that series would eventually happen in some form."

A third piped up with: "I don't want to be in a Black Mirror episode. Make it stop."

But you don't need to fear the robot uprising just yet, some of the world's leading robotics companies have pledged not to weaponise their creations.

The video currently circulating on the web appears to be linked to the Chinese Kestrel Defence company, who are notably absent from the aforementioned list.

The full description states: "War dogs descending from the sky, air assault, Red Wing Forward heavy-duty drones deliver combat robot dogs, which can be directly inserted into the weak link behind the enemy to launch a surprise attack or can be placed on the roof of the enemy to occupy the commanding heights to suppress firepower.

"And ground troops [can] conduct a three-dimensional pincer attack on the enemy in the building."

So yeah, that's great.

The Robopocalypse/Skynet invasion may be on its way.