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May 12, 2009
The war with (our friends) the machines
If the doomsayers are right to fret about demographic trends, dying democracies might turn to robots to guard their borders. Israel's Genius is quite sporty looking but what I am after is a Japanese model. I am possessed by an image of Hello Kitty mowing down corsairs and other trespassers and the like.
An unmanned autonomous patrol vehicle has entered service and is now patrolling the Gaza and Lebanon borders. It drives and avoids obstacles autonomously, and allows the control unit to take over it, if something happens. It also multiple sensors and can send real time information to controllers as well unmanned drone and helicopters. It can have various equipment mounted on it, such as weapons as well. The Genius' purpose is to give the IDF a good situation awareness through its many sensors distributed all along the vehicle's body. Once armed infiltrators have been detected, AH-64 and combat units are called to finish the work. A good way to avoid kidnapping.
Video at the link.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 12, 2009 07:21 AM
