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A new Bosstown Dynamics video created by Corridor has gone viral. The video has over two million views so far and has easily fooled many into thinking it was a real robot.

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This week on GunVenture, join VATA Group trainers Greg Lapin and Destin Mounts for high-tech training using Marathon Targets’ robotic targets.

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Got an assortment of grenades, grenade launchers, vests, bomb robots, gas masks, and then your basic gloves and helmets. Everything a growing department needs.

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What will it actually do that less expensive options won’t?

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In an effort to save lives, the last chapter of this week's mass murder in Dallas came at the hands of a remote-controlled robot in what may be the first such use in this country.

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The contest has six robotic competitors, controlled by their human counterparts, facing off as they make their way through a miniature city.

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A newly implemented algorithm allows damaged robots to continue on with their mission, even if they lose one of their legs. Researchers Antoine Cully, Jeff Clune and Jean-Baptiste Mouret programmed a hexapodal robot with the ability to conduct its own “Intelligent Trial and Error.” When one of the robot’s legs sustains damage, the software sorts […]

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DARPA’s Big Dog saw its first real-world action in Hawaii during the RIMPAC 2014, a multinational maritime war games. The robotic monstrosity known as the LS3 performed well across various types of terrain and was able to keep up with the bipedal Marines with ease. While Big Dog has been in development for years, this […]

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Props and costumes designer Shawn Thorsson created a handmade, life-size replica of the ED-209 robot from ‘RoboCop.’ Thorsson embarked on the project for the Maker Faire, and barely had enough time to finish it. In the video, he shows off some of the detailed touches he added to make sure the ED-209 looked as authentic […]

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency unveiled concept images for their modular drones that will fight alongside warriors in the battlefield in an announcement Tuesday. DARPA launched their Transformer (TX) program in 2009 with the intent to provide troops with “flexible, terrain-independent transportation for logistics, personnel transport and tactical support missions for small ground units.” And […]

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The U.S. Army with Lockheed Martin showed off their battlefield-ready, fully autonomous convoy during a demonstration at Fort Hood, Texas, earlier this month. The comprehensive demonstration marked the completion of a joint venture between the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) and Lockheed Martin to create driverless, tactical vehicles that can navigate […]

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Meet Valkyrie, the 6’2”, 275 pound “superhero robot” that was built to walk on Mars. I’m pretty sure the inventors of Valkyrie took a page out of Tony Stark’s book, because it looks like this space-bound automaton shares some similarities with Ironman. “We really wanted to design the appearances of this robot to be one […]

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