The US Army’s Robot Revolution Has Stalled
Following a high-profile screw-up in Iraq a decade ago, the Army has been reluctant to deploy armed ground robots.
David Axe
Nov 16 2017, 10:30am
Following a high-profile screw-up in Iraq a decade ago, the US Army has been reluctant to deploy armed ground robots. But rival armies—Russia's, in particular—have no such hang-ups, and are quickly developing lethal ground bots that could render today's armored vehicles obsolete.
That's the conclusion of a new study from Robert Bunker, a professor at the Army War College in Pennsylvania. "While the United States has the technical lead in developing teleoperated ground systems, it has stumbled in their actual fielding in combat," Bunker writes.
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