Posts Tagged Civilians

  • Robot Repair Shop Helps Keep Troops Safe Robot Repair Shop Helps Keep Troops Safe

    A few Soldiers, Marines and civilians work with equipment right out of the pages of yesterday's science fiction when they keep a fleet of robots in the fight at the Joint Robotics Repair Detachment, or JRRD, located at Victory Base Complex in Baghdad, Iraq. They range in size from a few pounds to...

  • Pentagon to Deploy Autonomous Fighting Robots in Battlefields Pentagon to Deploy Autonomous Fighting Robots in Battlefields

    It looks like we're gearing towards robotic warfare! Have you seen the movie "District 9"?, although the bad guys were aliens, the concept of robotic war is evident. That was fiction though. In real life, more than 5000 lethal and nonlethal robots, with remote human intervention have already...