DARPA has hosted competitions in 2004 & 2005 to involve private companies and universities to develop unmanned ground vehicles to navigate through rough terrain in the Mojave Desert for a final prize of 2 million. military is investing heavily in the RQ-1 Predator, which can be armed with air-to-ground missiles and remotely operated from a command center in reconnaissance roles. Some believe the future of modern warfare will be fought by automated weapons systems. Already several military robots have been developed by various armies. The use of robots in warfare, although traditionally a topic for science fiction, is being researched as a possible future means of fighting wars. The MQB-1 Predator drone was when 'CIA officers began to see the first practical returns on their decade-old fantasy of using aerial robots to collect intelligence'. British soldiers with captured German Goliath remote-controlled demolition vehicles (Battle of Normandy, 1944)īroadly defined, military robots date back to World War II and the Cold War in the form of the German Goliath tracked mines and the Soviet teletanks.

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