AUVSI show spotlight: More than aircraft - At AUVSI show, focus includes robots that swim, roll and crawl

摘要

When intelligence officials hear the word "unmanned," the phrase "aerial vehicle" fills itself in almost naturally. Maybe too naturally. The lineup for this month's Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International conference in San Diego suggests that this reflex might soon be a thing of the past. The industry's pioneers probably never expected the growing variety of unmanned craft on land and at sea when they held their first symposium just as the U.S. chapter in Vietnam was about to slam shut.