Robots in Military Applications
MILITARY ROBOTS
"Robots that can decide where to kill, who to kill and when to kill is high on all the military agendas"
General
1. Mil robots are autonomous or remote-controlled devices designed for military applications. There are 43 countries working on mil robotics today, from Britain and Japan to China, India, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran.
2. The futuristic battlefield is going to depend substantially on deployment of standoff weapons and virtual technology. Robotic technology will play a major role. Presently, mil robots are essentially used as UAVs or for landmine and explosive search. A few developed armies are using them for counterterrorism purposes. However, robots are not autonomous entities with positron brains. Their performance still depends on human control.
3. Peter Singer who has authored books on military robotics include ‘Wired for War’ says that "Military robots are an even more revolutionary technology than the atomic bomb," "The robotics revolution in war has a critical difference — it affects the 'who' of war, not only the warriors' experience, but the very identity of the warriors themselves."
US Mil Robots
4. The use of robotics in the military has exploded in the past several years as technology has advanced while the world faced a new kind of enemy that required patient, precise surveillance. The US is leading the world in Robotics. It is creating a grand robotic army. The US mil and int agencies deploy thousands of unmanned vehicles in the air and on the ground, include Predator and Reaper drones which are being used for bombing. In 2003, the US military had almost no robots in its arsenal but now has 7,000 unmanned ac and at least 10,000 ground vehicles. The US AF, which initially resisted the idea of pilot less planes, now trains more operators for unmanned aircraft than pilots for its fighter jets and bombers.
5. Their current and planned mil robots of US are discussed at
"Robots that can decide where to kill, who to kill and when to kill is high on all the military agendas"
General
1. Mil robots are autonomous or remote-controlled devices designed for military applications. There are 43 countries working on mil robotics today, from Britain and Japan to China, India, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran.
2. The futuristic battlefield is going to depend substantially on deployment of standoff weapons and virtual technology. Robotic technology will play a major role. Presently, mil robots are essentially used as UAVs or for landmine and explosive search. A few developed armies are using them for counterterrorism purposes. However, robots are not autonomous entities with positron brains. Their performance still depends on human control.
3. Peter Singer who has authored books on military robotics include ‘Wired for War’ says that "Military robots are an even more revolutionary technology than the atomic bomb," "The robotics revolution in war has a critical difference — it affects the 'who' of war, not only the warriors' experience, but the very identity of the warriors themselves."
US Mil Robots
4. The use of robotics in the military has exploded in the past several years as technology has advanced while the world faced a new kind of enemy that required patient, precise surveillance. The US is leading the world in Robotics. It is creating a grand robotic army. The US mil and int agencies deploy thousands of unmanned vehicles in the air and on the ground, include Predator and Reaper drones which are being used for bombing. In 2003, the US military had almost no robots in its arsenal but now has 7,000 unmanned ac and at least 10,000 ground vehicles. The US AF, which initially resisted the idea of pilot less planes, now trains more operators for unmanned aircraft than pilots for its fighter jets and bombers.
5. Their current and planned mil robots of US are discussed at