Cute Pocket-Sized Robot Could Change Urban Warfare
It’s small, it’s sturdy and someday every soldier may have one.
Consumer- and military-robot manufacturer iRobot has made a little “cousin” of its famous Packbot that’s small enough to fit in a pocket, weighs less than a pound, clambers almost anywhere and forms ad-hoc wireless networks with its kin.
It’s been made under a Pentagon contract to develop “LANdroids,” small, automatically networking communications and surveillance robots.