Where We've Been: Germany's World War II Goliath UGV Showed 'What Not to Do'

摘要

In 1940, German forces in occupied France recovered from the Seine River a small tracked vehicle developed by Adolphe Kegresse, a prominent French inventor. "He had built a system which to me appears to be largely based on the earlier U.S. Land Torpedo, which was pretty well described in a patent application," says Cmdr. H.R. (Bart) Everett (USN-Ret.), technical director for robotics at Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center and author of the forthcoming book, "Unmanned Systems of World War II: Air, Land and Sea."