The United States has robots prepared to fight in the battlefield and is planning to create more complex machines in the future that think for themselves, according to a report on newscientist.com.
The United States has robots prepared to fight in the battlefield and is planning to create more complex machines in the future that think for themselves, according to a report on newscientist.com.
Among the robots soon to hit the battlefield are Sword, a machine-gun equipped robot and iRobot's shotgun-totting robot. Sword was approved as safe for use by the U.S. armed forces in June.
While gun-totting robots are hitting the battlefield, the creation of a "Terminator" robot seems all the more real with the unveiling of an artificial skin that looks and feels human. To mimic human's largest organ, Kao used a 1 cm thick layer of elastic silicone covered with a 0.2 mm thick layer of urethane. Tiny hexagonal indentations etched into the urethane give it a realistic texture.
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