Army Demos Video Game-Controlled Robot

Making robots that are intuitive and easy to use is one of the many challenges of unmanned systems. It turns out iRobot’s small unmanned ground vehicle (SUGV), one of the robots going into the Army’s Future Combat System, can be controlled with a pair of specially equipped eye-glasses and a video-game handset. Bettina Chavanne, writing at Aviation Week’s ARES blog, took the SUGV out for a spin this week at Ft. Bliss, in Texas: The monocle sits over his right eye, and the controller is based
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