Thursday, 8. January 2004
Topic: ROBOT - on January 8, 2004 at 11:54:00 AM CET
Mobile Robots Take Baby Steps
A robot dog could one day become a soldier's best friend -- if an Army program works out as planned.
Today's soldiers carry as much as 100 pounds of equipment. That's exhausting, even for the toughest grunt. In the future, the Army wants to dump up to half that gear onto the back of a drone. But military scientists are worried that robots with wheels won't be able to follow their human masters across mountain passes, up stairs and through forest trails.
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