Wars in pocket coat: Robot information

In the list of iRobot's current and future products, there are war types such as direct control of weapons on the battlefield (for example, grenade launchers), anti-fire systems and of course robots The most famous company is the Roomba cleaning robot.

Tiny robot model for war. (Photo: Robot Stock News).

The Ember project - making war microrobots has entered a field test, collectively called PackBot . The project has successfully completed the prototype creation phase, which has been publicly announced.

' Little sly name ' Ember is a type of microrobot that can become one of the main ' characters ' in the PackBot family. In addition to communication capabilities, the ability to roll over and over, allowing it to easily overcome non-large obstacles in the way.

According to the Ember iRobot announcement, one of the products, created under the US Department of Defense's LANdroids program, is to create small robots to organize communication on the battlefield quickly with a wireless network. This contract will be completed in 3 years with a value of $ 2.5 million.

According to the objectives of the Program, the final model of the robot must satisfy a number of requirements such as a volume of no more than 450 g, enough ' intelligence ' to detect and overcome obstacles when operating at the location is not flat. But the main thing is that the price must be cheap (no more than $ 100 / head) so that in necessary cases, it can be " sacrificed " mercilessly and replace the one who is removed from the ring by how much ' Warriors ' equivalent is fine.

There are many similar examples in movies. The fact that Ember was accepted by the armed forces to solve some operations on the battlefield. It connects circuits with other devices such as videocamera, microphones, chemical sensors .

It is thought that every soldier could carry with him immediately a few " assistants ", throwing them into the battlefield and even the buildings that were surrounded . Ember 's sly name ' Ember will contact his employer, communicate with each other as well as Control Centers to inform the situation and perform assigned tasks.

In general, we can believe that the future war will be carried out not only among humans but also by robots controlled and directed by humans.