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posted by malloc at 01:28 pm on 2008-02-27 |
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Pentagon's giant bumper car controled by 360 controller
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has nearly finished its 7 ton crusher robot that has a top speed of about 25 mph. The six-wheeler rolls through ditches, walls, streams, other vehicles and almost anything else that gets in its way. It can do this all on its own but is being tested with a standard Xbox 360 controller, which will also be used to raise the mast antenna, rotate the cameras and fire the weapons. Soldiers "could finally put those 'Halo' skills to good use," joked a director behind the project.
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"This vehicle can go into places where, if you were following in a Humvee, you'd come out with spinal injuries," Stephen Welby, director of DARPA's Tactical Technology Office, told the military-oriented Stars and Stripes newspaper. "Usually vehicles are set up to protect humans. Here, we didn't have to worry about that."
"This could be used as a scout, or a quick-response support vehicle," Welby told Stars and Stripes. "With existing cameras we've put on there this vehicle is able to see rabbits at long-range, and enemy troops from 4 kilometers [2 and a half miles] away. Imagine sending this to an intersection and letting it sit there to monitor what's going on for days or weeks."
News Source: foxnews
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