Killer robot armies
Edouard Pflimlin,
June 2017
Ground combat robots were the stars of the Eurosatory defence show last June. They can be fitted with machine guns or grenade launchers, like the THeMIS (Estonia), help in the fight against terror, like the Dogo, or guard convoys, like the RoBattle (both Israel), a seven-tonne, six-wheel-drive vehicle with a gun turret. Though these are controlled by humans, there are already some fully automatic ground robots.Since 2010, the SGR-A1, a robot sentry developed by South Korean group Samsung, has guarded the (...) →