Glimpses of future battlefield medicine – the proliferation of robotic surgeons and unmanned vehicles and technologies

摘要

Just as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)4?have continued to provide grounds troops with timely intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, and when armed, with the ability to bomb enemy targets using precision-guided bombs, today, unmanned ground vehicles ?(UGVs) ?and robotic ground platforms (RGPs), are increasingly being developed. Not only to search for improvised explosive devices, but also as important battlefield life-saving technologies. With today’s battlespace domination by various ‘life-taking’ weaponised robots, which can achieve ‘lethality via remote- control’, it has been encouraging to see the recent proliferation and availability of new ‘life-preserving’ technologies ?and ?unmanned ?platforms.