The military forces always tried to use new gadgets and weapons for reducing the risk of their casualties and to
defeat their enemies. With the development of sophisticated technology, it mostly relies on the high tech
weapons or machinery being used. Robotics is one of the hot fields of modern age in which the nations are
concentrating upon for military purposes in the state of war and peace.
They have been in use for some time for demining and rescue operations but now they are under research for
combat or spy missions. Today's modern military forces are using different kinds of robots for different
applications ranging from mine detection, surveillance, logistics and rescue operations. In the future they will be
used for reconnaissance and surveillance, logistics and support, communications infrastructure, forward-deployed
offensive operations, and as tactical decoys to conceal maneuver by manned assets. In order to make robots for
the unpredicted cluttered environment of the battlefield, research on different aspects of robots is under
investigation in laboratories to be able to do its job autonomously, as efficiently as a human operated machine can
do. Latest techniques are being investigated to have advanced and intelligent robots for different operations. |