Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Guardium - a robot policeman in the real world


news_15565_1_MDGuardium, robotic vehicle designed for the Israeli armed forces, will become the world's first automated soldier, officially entered service. Its main purpose - to replace manpower with hazardous operations, which will reduce the number of losses. An operator that manages the machine, may be at a considerable distance from the place of fighting. The robot can be equipped with cameras, night vision devices, various sensors, and automatic firearms. When you set the route and the machine can be moved around the city - she knows how to behave at the crossroads of transportation and can distinguish between the road markings. With a full 360- degree view, the robot can perform patrols and alert operators of emergency situations. Guardium never worries and never sleeps.





Machine control panel includes two large display and joystick. According to John Pike (John Pike), Director Globalsecurity. org, development company, today there is only one analog of such a robot - South Korean car patrolling the border with its northern neighbor, this model tape MobileDevice. ru in my time as reported. In addition, John Pike opined that in future wars will be primarily involved robots. The cost of the hardware of each instance is 600 000 dollars, and if you take into account the software, this number may exceed the threshold of one million.



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