Interesting Engineering- 10 of the most advanced military robots in the world
The army is already using automated machines for a variety of purposes — from transportation, training, search and rescue, to clearing mines, fighting fire, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
Most commonly, military robots can be broken down into three types: Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV).
We can only hope they’ve read Asimov.
Asimov’s robot stories were all centered on various ways the Laws of Robotics failed.
They are illustrations of why they don’t, because they cannot, work as intended.
Like I said.
L – It should not be surprising to see robots replacing humans on the battlefield. After all
watching Question Period in Parliament, the political battlefield leads one to conclude the
same has robots serving as our politicians.
I suggest using Liberal and NDP supporters for some of these tasks!
Canada’s top military robot isn’t there. But then again, it’s not very advanced.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_National_Defence_(Canada)
Because a battlefield is so much easier to navigate than, say, city streets.
Hopefully I won’t live long enough to have one of these beasts shredding me into goo in my own driveway.
Y’know it’s coming. I can hear Blair already…”Well that’s interesting from an undesirable citizen standpoint…but can it deliver coffee?”
#6 is at least partly and I think mainly made and engineered in Canada, which is pretty cool.
Will it open the pod bay doors when asked?
In Canada the most important question will be – what gender does it identify and what are its pronouns.
I absolutely love the robotic utility track and not because it’s robotic. It’s size and utility is a game changer, especially in big numbers. If there was a manned version back in ww2 that could move awkward / heavy equipment across a tough to walk on beach with it’s operator shielded against machine gun fire with the ability to crawl up soft slopes, over razor wire and pass between tank traps that could have really supported the advance of troops through the beachhead killing zones. It could carry motars, machine guns, ammo, sandbags as well as provide cover.
I like the Israeli one that makes Palestinians shit themselves.
We need one in both TO and Montreal.
Is that the one that, instead of a machine gun and flame thrower, it has a reservoir for lard, which it melts down and sprays out of an adjustable stream nozzle? It can spray a stream 3″ in diameter out to 80 yards and when set to its wide mode, has a 60′ wide spray out at 40 feet.
Where’s the General Dynamics headless dog-looking thingy? Old tech? Must be my old generation’s version of advanced robots. Although I grew up on Robbie The Robot, sooo….
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I wonder what the heat signature of these robots is compared to a human. If higher than a human’s heat signature, then using them for night sorties is probably out of the question.
Given that in a serious war, the power grids and supply chains will all be smashed, what are these things supposed to run on? Wind power?
And for how long do they run?
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“Okay. We’ve got two hours to take that position…….
… CRAP! Still haven’t taken it and we have to go back to recharge.
Whatuhya mean, we don’t have enough juice to make it back to base? I don’t want to hear that. OH CRAP!”