The Taiwan military’s top weapons development institute showed off on Tuesday three robot patrol dogs that could one day be used on ​Taiwan’s islands in the disputed South China Sea. Democratically governed Taiwan, ‌which Beijing views as its own territory, has been modernising its armed forces to better deter China, and drones have been a key focus for the defence ministry. At ​a media event at the ministry, the military-owned National Chung-Shan Institute ​of Science and Technology demonstrated three different versions of a ⁠robot dog built by Ghost Robotics, a major U.S. military supplier ​of four-legged robots. The institute has mounted its own technology on the back of ​the robots for the reconnaissance, surveillance and firepower versions, the latter of which includes a gun on its back.

Full report : Robot patrol dogs could be coming to Taiwan’s South China Sea islands.