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Rifle-armed robot dog
Golden Dragon 2024
A roughly 50 kg robot dog shown by China's army carrying an assault rifle during the Golden Dragon 2024 exercise with Cambodia, alongside a 15 kg scout version.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 50 kgHeavier than 71%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A prototype machine from Unitree Robotics platform (reported) used by the PLA.
Real-world use
People's Liberation Army, shown during the Golden Dragon 2024 exercise with the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces
Maker
Unitree RoboticsCompany · founded 2016 · Hangzhou, ChinaPublic company: listed on Shanghai's STAR Market on 19 Aug 2026 (688836.SH), raising about 6.1 billion yuan at 150.80 yuan a share; earlier…
How it stacks up
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Rifle-armed robot dog (Golden Dragon 2024) is heavier than 71% of the 41 other robot dogs that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, speed, payload, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention Rifle-armed robot dog (Golden Dragon 2024) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
- 1 reported deployment
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- How it runs
- Assisted. Shown being steered remotely by soldiers while it balanced and walked itself; firing its rifle needs a person, so it is at most supervised for that.
- Sensors & vision
- The smaller (about 15 kg) scout dog had a 4D wide-angle sensing system and sent live images to command posts
- Battery & power
- The smaller dog was reported at two to four hours of endurance, with batteries in its belly
- Other details
- Two robot dogs were shown: a roughly 15 kg reconnaissance unit and a roughly 50 kg unit carrying an assault rifle on its back. Reports attribute the platforms to Unitree Robotics.
Lineage
Every Unitree Robotics platform (reported) used by the PLA machine in order.
XDog2016Retired
Laikago2017Discontinued
AlienGo2019Discontinued
A12020Discontinued
B12021Discontinued
Go12021Discontinued
Go22023In service
B22023Commercial- No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useRifle-armed robot dog (Golden Dragon 2024)2024Prototype
Go2-W2024Commercial
B2-W2024Commercial- No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useA2 (Stellar Hunter)2025Commercial
As22026Commercial
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Not offered for sale as shown; demonstration by the People's Liberation Army
- Customers and pilots
- People's Liberation Army, shown during the Golden Dragon 2024 exercise with the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces
Where it works
1 reported deployment.
- Trial ended
People's Liberation Army with Royal Cambodian Armed Forces · Golden Dragon 2024 exercise · since 2024-05 · 2 units
Chinese troops showed Unitree robot dogs, one carrying a rifle, in the Golden Dragon 2024 exercise with Cambodia. Two Unitree robot dogs shown Army Recognition
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- PLA shows rifle-armed robot dog in Cambodia
Coverage of the Golden Dragon 2024 exercise highlighted a robot dog carrying a rifle as the event's most striking image.
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Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useRifle-armed robot dog (Golden Dragon 2024)Unitree Robotics platform (reported) used by the PLA |  SPUR (Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle) on Vision 60SWORD International (on a Ghost Robotics Vision 60)Same job: armed demonstration · Both walk · Both in development |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2024-05-16 | 2021-10-11 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | — | — |
| Weight | 50 kg | — |
| Joints | — | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Payload | — | — |
| Battery | — | — |
| Price | — | — |
Sources
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