March of the ESRobots

By Mark Thompson | @MarkThompson_DC | February 9, 2012 | +

The Pentagon is determined to hunt down and kill explosive devices – including crude roadside bombs – that account for about 50% of U.S. casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq. Here’s its latest effort, in a contract solicitation posted Wednesday: it wants 15-pound Engineering Squad Robots to hunt those killers down and destroy them, as well as other “explosive ordnances” found in urban areas:

Goal is to get them to the battlefield by 2019.

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