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The military's most successful weapons in recent years, including the Global Hawk and the Predator, as well as a remote-controlled ground vehicle from iRobot Corp. called the PackBot, haven't come out of the Pentagon's traditional weapons-buying system, said Peter Singer, director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution.
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PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This explosion two months ago in Iraq is a result of U.S. soldiers employing the latest in robot technology using a small radio - controlled vehicle called the PackBot to detonate a roadside bomb.
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For instance, iRobot’s PackBot, which is used by the U.S. military, can only travel at speeds of up to 5.8 miles per hour.
The Robot Cheetah 2009
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When “standing” on its articulating treads and with the arm extended, the PackBot can (with a little careful positioning) be delivered through a window:
AUVSI: iRobot Warrior 700 Smashes Through Doors, Delivers PackBots Through Windows | BotJunkie 2009
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The PackBot, controlled by a second operator, has no trouble surviving a fall of several feet.
AUVSI: iRobot Warrior 700 Smashes Through Doors, Delivers PackBots Through Windows | BotJunkie 2009
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I was at a presentation in early 2004 that segued from a cutesy extended demonstration of the Roomba negotiating its way around corners to a bang-flash-pow Rambo-meets-Short Circuit promo video for the PackBot.
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Here, a PackBot pictured by another PackBot at the No. 2 reactor.
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The Warrior 700 can carry a PackBot on its back in a cage attached to an arm.
AUVSI: iRobot Warrior 700 Smashes Through Doors, Delivers PackBots Through Windows | BotJunkie 2009
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/Reuters PackBot, iRobot Corp.'s small robot that scoots around on tank-like treads, opens a door at the No. 3 reactor of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday.
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/Reuters Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that the PackBot would monitor radiation and oxygen levels to find out whether conditions were safe enough to allow human workers to go in to try to bring the nuclear crisis at the plant under control.
marky commented on the word PackBot
Packbots are real robots. U.S. soldiers carry Packbots on their backs in backpacks so they can deploy them in dangerous situations and operate them remotely. PackBot on Wikipedia.
December 7, 2009