The US army placed an order for 3 thousands of robotic engineers of the new generation totaling nearly $ 0.5 billion of the Machine must be no larger than a backpack and have the possibility of using as for mine and for exploration.
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Such robots can dramatically reduce the risks for soldiers on the battlefield, and a couple of years ago, everyone would have enthusiastically embraced such a purchase with taxpayers ‘ money. But the world is changing — and the request of army robots-the bomb squad has caused controversy in Congress and the Senate.
In August the Pentagon released a report which States that China conducts espionage to acquire foreign military technology — sometimes using students or researchers as «purchasing agents and intermediaries. Experts believe that China is already very far advanced the opportunity of seizing control of various electronic equipment. And therefore robots the US army could theoretically turn their guns in the wrong direction…
Until this issue is often raised in courts related to the fierce competition between the Israeli Roboteam and based in Massachusetts Endeavour Robotics for orders on the ground a new generation of robots for the army. The parties blame each other in varying degrees of accessibility for Chinese spies. Their arguments have not yet convinced the courts so that one of them was removed from orders. Chinese manufacturers have long been removed. But in the published the November report of the study group of the Congress, said that the threat of hacker attacks on military robots is not removed, while acknowledging the necessity of their introduction — with a very well thought-out controls
The largest order value of 429 million dollars, involves the mass production of 25-pound robots, which are self-propelled but can move infantry long distances,» said Brian McVeigh, project Manager for the design forces in the army’s research center in Warren, Michigan in an interview with the Associated Press.
Other more large-size applications are unmanned vehicles the size of the tank that have been tested in recent weeks, the terrain in the vicinity of Fort Drum, new York.
