During a recent visit to Lourdes, his right Holy one Pope Benedict XVI (guarantee that comes up in a pub quiz soon) has his every move tracked by an unmanned aerial vehicle. It’s certainly the direction we’d expect his protection to be coming from – but perhaps the UAV was in case the big fella upstairs was busy.
Tagged ‘military’
Normally used for reconnaissance missions and bombing sorties, UAVs’ (unmanned aerial vehicles) vast internal technology has been unleashed for more peaceful pursuits in the shape of this delivery service in rural Africa.
This Airsniper from AUS International looks to be the first unmanned aircraft that is to be armed and therefore able to fly over the enemies heads whilst letting rip with its sub automatic machine gun.
Team Stellar are the victors of this years Grand Challenge, the competition set up by the MoD to find the miltary robots of tomorrow, beating off competition from ten others.
We’ve brought you iPhone app’s a plenty of late, this one however is not some time frittering bit of fun for pure showing off to friends purposes, no this is serious, please pay attention.
Designed with keeping human personnel out of danger in mind, iRobot have unveiled their latest device to tackle fragile situations with direct contact, but at more than an arms length away.
Feast your eyes on the latest from Boston Dynamics, innovators of military equipment, a near AT-AT clone which is seemingly unstoppable, even when fully loaded.
First a flotilla of robotic fish for ocean reconnaissance, then the threat of bikini clad beauty replacement robots for those in bother in the briny. Now the latest droid taking to the high seas is set to seek out much more of our murky underwater expanse.