U.S. military's a new challenge: rescue robots

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The men who worked day and night to control the Fukushima disaster last year were regarded as heroes, willing to risk radiation to keep the impending disaster under control. But why put people in harms way when a robot could do the job? The U.S. military thinks we shouldn’t have to. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research and Planning Agency (Darpa) announced a competition today to build robots that could cut down on all that heroism. more...