Video Friday: Top 10 Combat Robots

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 16 of January , 2009 at 3:31 am

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This minute long video is someone’s list of their top 10 combat robots. We’ve actually covered every single one of them here on BotJunkie:

-Sarcos Exoskeleton (not really a robot, I’d say, but oh well)
-Crusher UGV
-Predator UAV
-Ripsaw UGV
-RHex
-LittleDog (um, “combat”?)
-Talon
-BigDog
-MAARS

…Except the first one, Mule. Oh well. 9/10 ain’t bad, right? And it’s not because we’re all about the military bots; it’s just that for better or worse, that’s where all the grant money goes.

Now, those of you familiar with robots might notice a few GIGANTIC ERRORS with this video, first and foremost the mislabeling of a Global Hawk UAV as a Predator, and showing it firing a missile, which it doesn’t do. Also, I’m pretty sure that some of the footage of the Foster-Miller Talon robot is actually of an iRobot PackBot… It had better be, because otherwise that’s a pretty serious omission, IMO.

An entire playlist of detailed footage of every bot on the top 10 list, after the jump.

VIA [ NewLaunches ]

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