Manually controlled robots have established their value on numerous battlefields, mostly in reconnaissance and bomb detection and disposal activities. While that’s unlikely to change in the near-term, robot makers are looking ahead to the next generation of design: autonomous capabilities barely dreamed of a decade ago.
Helen Greiner, cofounder of iRobot Corp., a supplier of robots to the U.S. military, says there has been a “push toward getting not just teleoperated robots [in the field], but to make some functionally autonomous.” Making bots and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) autonomous, she adds, is “one of the biggest requests we’re getting.”
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