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The MAV system from Honeywell, consisting of one to two air vehicles and a ground station, provides enhanced mission effectiveness and force protection.  This reconnaissance vehicle can be carried using a backpack and is perfect for short range maneuvers.

Troops using a SWORD robot (as seen in the Tech category) attempt to disarm an IED and proceed to blow the shit out of the 400k piece of military technology.

Army contracted BAE Systems has been working on Bug Bots designed for the army. The recently funded MAST (Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology) consortium is a group of scientist working on tiny intelligence gathering robots. These tiny robots are meant to explore dangerous areas and could even carry small explosives in the […]

Foster-Miller has created a military robot called SWORDS or the Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System. With a hefty price tag of around $225,000 the military knows these are badass enough to spend the cash(especially if it is saving soldiers lives). In 2007 three units were deployed in Iraq, despite rumored recalls, they are […]

This DARPA funded packing robot is pretty creepy but an amazing technological achievement. Boston Dynamics has designed this robot it the hopes that is will accompany troops in the field and be able to scale extreme terrains (check out the ice is slips and recovers from.) This four legged robot can recover easily […]

A 6.5 ton unmanned ground combat vehicle designed to carry a large payload and travel through extreme terrain. Developed through Carnegie Mellon University with funding from DARPA and represents a new class of UGCV’s.