We've seen a number of autonomous helicopters in our day,
but most of them just fly around showing off their avoidance and maneuvering skills and snapping the occasional photo or
vid. Well Neural Robotics Incorporated has just made their AutoCopter minicopter a lot more, um, interesting by adding
an AA-12 12-gauge shotgun to the nose of the hovering sentry. Previously, the sub-$100,000 AutoCopter was restricted to
such "mundane" tasks as surveillance, mine detection, and escort duty, but made a fun and easy target for
enemies to pick off. According to the rather loving write-up by Defense Review, with the addition of heavy firepower,
this semi- or fully-autonomous, parachute-equipped copter is now able to "seek out, locate,
identify, and destroy/terminate (i.e. kill) the enemy with extreme prejudice at 300
rounds-per-minute." Isn't technology great! You can catch some footage of this little terror in action by
following the "Read" link...[Via Defense Tech]