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They call it a "dog" to lessen fear, but in a few years these things will be shooting back.
The way they talk about that robot in a quadruped form is still somehow more humane than the way they talk about/treat the actual dogs they abuse into being weapons. Honestly, more robot “dogs” just means less euthanized Belgian shepherds who can’t unlearn a traumatic puppyhood of being forced to bark and bite on (to the dog random) stimuli
They treat that robot better than the actual human people they harass and murder.
I was just going to say something along those lines, it feels very uncanny to me that the terminology goes unchallenged; the only thing it has in common with a dog is how it moves.
Accepting the word "dog" works to compare this to an actual living being, and hide the fact that it's just a terrestrial drone. Seeing the article just accept it makes my skin crawl.