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"U.S. and British troops participated in the Robotic Complex Breach Concept demonstration, during which several remote-controlled vehicles performed a task usually carried out by soldiers...

... The rotational armor brigade [U.S. 1st Infantry Div., 2'd Armored Brigade Combat Team] was the main armor element during the exercise. It provided suppressing fire with M1A2 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles, while remote-controlled U.K. Terrier engineering vehicles cleared a simulated minefield and bridged a tank trench.

Breaching enemy obstacles is one of the most dangerous tasks on a battlefield, said British Warrant Officer Robert Kemp.

"Any breach like this will have enemy weapons trained in on the area," Kemp said. "Roboticizing breach operations takes away the risk of life and makes clearing enemy obstacles much safer."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018...-kind.html
If that *Skynet* techno-singularity of the Terminator franchise ever arises, nice to know it'll have lots of mobile military robots, drones, etc to demon-hack possess. Some institution just needs to evaporate job-security for yet more humans by designing and constructing robots that can maintain and repair other robots, as well as an autonomous factory to manufacture new ones, along with self-foraging supply / resource networks.

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