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Precision Urban Hopper Jumps 25 FT...

Precision Urban Hopper Jumps 25 FT
A video clip (shown below) released by the Sandia National Laboratory demos DARPA’s Precision Urban Hopper for the first time. The rugged unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), primarily designed to reduce military casualties by providing reconnaissance, is capable of leaping over 25-foot tall obstacle without sustaining any damage. The hopper is roughly the size of a shoebox, guided by...

Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot R...

Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot – BEAR
The US Army has developed a new unmanned ground vehicle that can rescue victims from an array of dangerous situations. The humanoid BEAR – Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot – is being developed by Vecna Robotics and features a powerful upper body controlled by hydraulics that can lift 500 pounds. And because it’s remote controlled, it can locate victims on the...

iPhone Robot...

iPhone Robot
When it comes to electronics, there are two words that have become something of a modern-day trend – robotics and the iPhone. With both technologies being on the verge of starting a new chapter in the digital revolution, what better way to progress than to incorporate both into one device? And that is exactly what Japanese inventor has done. Meet Robochan – a humanoid robot...

UGV Robot Warfare...

UGV Robot Warfare
iRobot’s Ember The consumer/military robot manufacturer iRobot has spawned the little brother of its already famous Packbot, proving once again that remote controlled unmanned vehicles are the future of battlefield support. The new bot, known as Ember, weighs less than 1 pound and is small enough to fit in your pocket. It runs on reversible treads and has two flippers at one end...

Human-Like Visions Helps Robots Maneuver...

Human-Like Visions Helps Robots Maneuver
Traversing cluttered or unpredictable terrain is one of those seemingly trivial tasks that pose extreme difficulty for robots. But a new robotic vision system based on key functions of the human brain promises to let robots maneuver quickly and safely through cluttered environments. Researchers envision this technology will lead to a robot developed specifically to help guide the...

T Hawk Autonomous Flying Robot Saves Liv...

T Hawk Autonomous Flying Robot Saves Lives
The British Ministry of Defense has employed a new device designed to minimize casualties in the search for IEDs, land mines and roadside bombs. The T-Hawk RQ-16, a small autonomous drone, offers hover and stare capabilities enabling close reconnaissance and scrutiny of potential threats without exposing the soldier to unnecessary risk. Developed by Honeywell and named after the...

Lockheed Martin Multiple Kill Vehicle...

Lockheed Martin Multiple Kill Vehicle
Lockheed Martin has recently reported it’s first successful flight of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L). The MKV is designed to maneuver into combat areas and intercept all lethal targets, whilst avoiding any countermeasures the enemy may deploy in an attempt to trick the system. Using tracking data from the Ballistic Missile Defense System...

Tetra Vaal Law Enforcing Military Robot...

Tetra Vaal Law Enforcing Military Robot
This great video has been gaining some attention on the Internet recently. The concept is believable and to be honest, the implications that we already created an artificial form of life aren’t far off either. But for anyone with some tech know how, or for those who never believe any to-good-to-be-true video clip, it was never a reality, more of a great piece of CGI. Although the...

Titanic Search Was Secret Military Cover...

Titanic Search Was Secret Military Cover Up
The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that his mission was used as a cover up story to camouflage the military’s real objective of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines. Dr Bob Ballard who led the team that found the wreck of the Titanic back in 1995, admitted that he was only allowed to search for the sunken luxury cruise liner after he located...

The Crusher – DARPAs Six Wheeled A...

Pioneers in military technology DARPA – The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – have just unveiled a six-wheeled autonomous robot that is capable of maneuvering through ditches, walls, streams and even other vehicles whilst raining down a hail of bullets against its enemies. The Crusher – developed at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics...

Remote Control Helicopter With Full-Auto...

Remote Control Helicopter With Full-Auto Shotgun
There have been a number of autonomous helicopters developed in the past that have proven their worth to the Military. Able only to performing mundane tasks such as surveillance, mine detection, and escort duty they certainly have still been beneficial, but no previous model will quite match a new AutoCopter Gunship developed by Neural Robotics Incorporated, well at least not in fire...

Iraq War Veteran Gets High-Tech Bionic H...

Iraq War Veteran Gets High-Tech Bionic Hand
Iraq war veteran Sgt. Juan Arredondo can now grasp tennis balls and door knobs with his left hand again, now that he’s been outfitted with a bionic hand that has flexible fingers. This brings new meaning and current implementation to once futuristic themes such as Terminator, Robo Cop and Star Wars. Sgt Juan Arrendondo Get Bionic Hand The 27-year-old former Army soldier, who lost...

Transformers Assited by Military and DOD...

Transformers Assited by Military and DOD
The Transformers was an American cartoon series depicting a war between giant robots who could transform into vehicles, animals, and other objects.In Japan, the series was called Fight! Super Robot Life Form Transformers (??! ?????????????????, Tatakae! Cho Robotto Seimeitai Toransuf?m?). The Transformers toy-line and cartoon series owed their existence to the Japanese toyline, Microman...

Sea Sentinels Protect Ports from Terrori...

Sea Sentinels Protect Ports from Terrorism
Defense and security has come a long way in recent years, with tragic events like Sept 9/11 the public has seen a sharp increase in security measures worldwide. Now a Florida based start-up dubbed SeaAway (no relation to Segway) has turned their attention to making our ports a lot safer and guarding against terrorist attacks. To security experts, the immense cargo ships that ferry more...

Microsoft XBox 360 Joins the Military Ro...

Microsoft XBox 360 Joins the Military Robots
US Army has started implementing Microsoft’s newest gaming system, the XBox 360, to help train soldiers with simulated combat and war games. The United States military has always been aware of the synergy between gaming and its new weapons systems. On a side note I read that when the Department of Defense was designing the new Air Force jet F22 Raptor, it brought in the...

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