Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Military use of robots increases!

Robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction. They have left the movie screen and have entered combat. I think this article is interesting because they are expecting about 30% of the military to be composed of robots. Not the kind of terminator or I-robot, but self-driving vehicles and rescue robots. Like you don't want to have robots at the button of bio-weapons because they might pick the wrong choice, that's why you want humans to do the thinking.
By 2020 they expect not only the pack bots like in this picture, but medical robots and spy bots. All of the robots of the military are teleoperated meaning that they are controlled by a remote location.

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