The rather beautiful looks of the robot in this prototype obliterate the fact that in realness it would be part of aswarmof military bots project to cringe into caves , sand trap and other unfriendly area to grab intel on the villain hiding within . Yes : it sounds like Minority Report , Dr Who and Robot Wars all wrap into one . And yes : it might just end up as a existent simple machine , since BAE Systems has just been awarded $ 38 million by the Army Research Lab to head up the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology project to develop the engineering science . The promotional video afford us a few more clues , despite its game - same looks , and if you do n’t like spiders then the image of one of the other potential dawdler bots will sure as shooting give you the heebyjeebies .
https://gizmodo.com/boeing-to-design-new-darpas-networked-swarm-spacecrafts-363617
And here ’s one of those spiders in more detail :
The purpose is that the pool lead by BAE will do research into originate an " autonomous , multifunctional collection of miniature intelligence activity - gathering robots " which will operate in places " too inaccessible or dangerous for man . " So , soldier in the field would be able-bodied to deploy the bot and get ahead a tactical advantage in dangerous situations , or potentially gather evidence they would n’t have been capable to antecedently . The University of Michigan , the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania are partners too , along with University of California at Berkeley , the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory among others .
Do n’t have a bun in the oven the automaton to be a reality any time shortly though , as all these science and engineering teams face an sinful number of scientific and technical obstacles to be overcome . thing like small - shell aeromechanics , propulsion , sensors , seafaring and ambulation . Only then will the little flapping , crawling worm - things be possible , though part of me hopes the bound spider affair never gets made — it ’s just too foul for word . [ BAE SystemsviaDangerroom ]
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