http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/ Engadget Comments for Carnegie Mellon's "Crusher" military bot getting $14 million upgrade http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 20th 2007 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/
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Bet it's can't run for six hours on a set of D sized batteries - or makes a cool sound when it's laser fires! ;-)]]>Dec 4th 2007 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Perhaps this helps:
autonomous: Of, pertaining to, or characterized by autonomy; self-governing, independent; free of external influence or control.
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I think you're the first one they're gonna er um retire when they start the invasion.]]>Dec 5th 2007 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/
james cameron sues.]]>Dec 4th 2007 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/they might as well as name this the T1, followed no less by the rest of T bots that Will eventually take over, kicking our fragile non metallic Asses
]]>Dec 4th 2007 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/]]>Dec 4th 2007 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Look at it, it's as though it just screeched to a halt and is still panting, hardly able to control its lust for human pain. ]]>Dec 4th 2007 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/
In reality most of the $14 million is going to MTV to offset costs incurred for the new "Pimp My Autonomous Killing Machine" series. It's going to look pretty sweet once they get the new Blaupunkt and chrome spinners installed.]]>Dec 4th 2007 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Desert Camo, Urban Camo, Jungle Camo, and chrome.]]>Dec 4th 2007 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 5:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/
I can imagine several reasons:

1. The remote control signal can be intercepted, jammed, hacked and the convoy truck might end up in enemy's hands.

2. The situation on the battlefield can change very quickly, and remote control center might be unaware of that.

3. Decrease of visibility or other factors (dirty/broken camera) might prevent remote operator from driving the vehicle effectively.

3. Humans are cheaper than robots (?)

All those issues can be addressed, it's probably not just feasible now.
]]>Dec 4th 2007 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/You probably hit the nail on the head with saying people are cheaper, and expendable.
]]>Dec 4th 2007 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Lots of experimental stuff is being done that they rather not talk about, either because the enemy will get info or more often because it's so disgusting that it might cause a backlash from the public.
]]>Dec 4th 2007 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 22nd 2007 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/
"No Pa.... I Love him.... "]]>Dec 4th 2007 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Dec 4th 2007 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=376975&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=21549313

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=376975&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=21549845
]]>Dec 4th 2007 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/Albeit it that your friends can revenge you when there's soldiers in 'the field', and when it's all robots then all that is left is going to the country that sent the robots and bring a dirty bomb along I fear.

]]>Dec 4th 2007 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/carnegie-mellons-crusher-military-bot-getting-14-million-upg/(Corrective post because there are already enough bad writing influences)
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