Robots in the Military

摘要

The use of robots in war dates back to World War II with the German Goliath remotecon-trolled explosive vehicles and the Soviet Union's wirelessly controlled, unmanned Teletanks. In today's military conflicts, the airspace is filled with unmanned aerial vehicles of all sizes-from the hand-launched vehicles of the Special Forces to the jet-powered Predator drones flown by Airmen thousands of miles away from the conflict area; as well as ground-based autonomous and wirelessly controlled robotic vehicles for high-risk patrols to explosive ordinance detonation and disarming. These robotic vehicles support a variety of military missions ranging from covert intelligence gathering to direct support to ground forces and overt military strikes. And we've just scratched the surface.