Posted On 08 Oct 2014
Monstrous Gun-Mounted Robot Spiders Proposed for China's Military – The Epoch Times
Monstrous Gun-Mounted Robot Spiders Proposed for China's MilitaryThe Epoch TimesWeapons designers in China may be watching too many Japanese cartoons. A new military vehicle design published in a Chinese science journal shows a car-sized 11-legged walking combat robot dubbed the “Crab Walker.” The Crab Walker would be …
U.S. Military Using Xbox 360 Controller For New Laser Gun (Kotaku)
Controlling military hardware with video game input devices isn't new. Drones, bomb defusal robots and other battlefield equipment have steered by Xbox 360 gamepads for a while now. But the newest weapon using a Microsoft-made controller might be one of the most powerful ones yet. It's a laser on top of a truck that shoots threats down from the sky.
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