New walking military robot suggests future of war
Military • November 2009 • Views: 496
Boston Dynamics just released new video of PETMAN, their anthropomorphic robot. But an army white paper suggests future roles for robots in handling explosives, mobile reconnaissance, and reducing soldier workload — and acknowledges robotic systems may already have saved hundreds of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And university researcher suggests that robots might actually make better decisions “in the fog of war”…