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Army researchers developing self-righting for robots

When a Soldier trips over a rock, he picks himself up, dusts himself off, and presses on. Bomb-defusing robots, for the moment, are not so good at recovering themselves in the same way.

Chad Kessens, a robot manipulation research engineer with the Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, part of the Research, Development and Engineering Command, on Aberdeen Proving Ground, or APG, Maryland, is working to make it so the autonomous vehicles used by Soldiers to investigate the inside of a room, or to defuse an improvised explosive device, can turn themselves back over, right side up, if they ever get flipped the wrong way.

sonicwrecks3061d ago

Clearly, the Army has never watched Robot Wars.

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New San Francisco ruling gives police the right to use killer robots

Police can strap bombs to robots to thwart bad guys in emergency situations.

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Well, it's finally happening. Restaurants are starting to use robots as servers

The robots still can't operate without the help of an actual server and look to assist employees instead of replacing them.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Using An Amendment To A Bill Which Ends Army's Controversial Twitch Channel

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is keen to break to the platform that would forbid the military from using funds to "maintain a presence on Twitch.com

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