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Autonomous Robotic Vehicles Becoming a Military Certainty

The 6.5-ton armor-clad robot, which Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center developed for the U.S. Army, demonstrated its titanic abilities recently at Fort Bliss, Texas, where it showed battlefield potential to keep troops out of harm's way. 

The six-wheeled behemoth named Crusher resembles a tank without a turret. Not pretty, Crusher is brawny, smart and determined. When it encountered a bulwark protected with barbed wire and a trench, Crusher traveled alongside until it found a weakness, then scrambled over the top all on its own.  Read More

Watch videos of Crusher in action here.

Read the brochure here.


Published Mar 03 2008, 11:33 AM by Andrew B. Einhorn |  Email |  Print



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