Army Wanted Backpack Bot To Haul Fire Extinguisher

A silly little story about the inanities of defense contracting. In the Army’s vision of the future, every 200-man company of soldiers will carry around its own, 30-pound ground robot — to peer around corners, hunt for improvised bombs, what have you. The idea is to keep the thing as light and as simple as possible, since some poor grunt is going to have to haul the robot around on his back, in addition to his regular load. And since the machine is very likely to be blown up anyway. But t
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