Tag Archives: defense
iRobot
The new iRobot Warrior 700 robot looks like the (much) bigger brother of the company’s PackBot. In fact the Warrior is a much larger, more powerful platform designed to deliver, well, PackBots (among other missions). The Warrior 700 can carry a PackBot at the end of an articulated arm, and insert the it through a [...]
EATR
Robotic Technology Inc.’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that’s right, “EATR” — “can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable,” reads the company’s Web [...]
Fabric For Looks
Imagine yourself in the middle of the dessert holding an M16 and hoping that you have your unit covered. Now imagine if that worry was eliminated due to the clothes on your back. No longer do you have to have “eyes in the back of your head,” instead you have them all over your body. [...]
