Military Robots Prepare to March Into Battle Posted by Scott Manning on January 11, 2002 | Comments (1)

NEW YORK — Fighting robots — once the stuff of Hollywood sci-fi flicks — could be making their way onto battlefields to help the military within a matter of years.

"We've always talked about robots doing the dangerous, dirty and dull jobs," said Chuck Thorpe, director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. "Certainly a lot of those jobs are to be found in the military, where you'd like to have eyes and ears and hands and legs on the ground, but not risk people."Full Story...