Build Your Own War Bot - Wired How-To Wiki
Build Your Own War Bot - Wired How-To Wiki
Take a look at how drastically warfare has changed in the last decade and you’ll understand why the U.S. military is increasingly turning to robots to do its dirtiest work. Dangerous missions once performed by human beings, such scouting for the enemy and defusing bombs, now fall to a wide range of bots known as Unmanned Vehicles, or UVs.
UVs come in all shapes, sizes and prices — from four-pound, hand-launched Raven aerial drones costing just $30,000 to Global Hawk spy planes with the wingspan of a 737 and a whopping $100-million price tag. Tens of thousands of UVs are in military service worldwide, and now you can get in on the action, too. Using a combination of hobbyist radio-controlled airplanes and trucks, cheap cellphones, digital cameras and off-the-shelf software, you can produce robots that perform basic tasks.
Although not quite as capable as their military counterparts — your creations will likely be dealing with sleeping cats rather than armed terrorists — these bots can deliver some impressive results.
(Via Wired, via DatDatDat.)
