The term “unmanned” appears with increasing frequency – particularly when it comes to warfare.
Remote-controlled aircraft are particularly busy. The U.S. military has used Predator Drones to take out a several Al Qaeda leaders and last fall announced they’d used a new type of unmanned aircraft to kill two Iraqi’s who were trying to plant a road side bomb.
Last summer, the U.S. Army began using the first armed ground robot in Iraq. The robot, picture above, is called special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system or SWORDS.
So robots are good right? Not everyone thinks so.
Read more and watch a robot video at The Baltimore Sun’s science and technology blog Science Matters.
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