The Crusher robot vehicle

by Marshall Brain

The Crusher is a fully autonomous vehicles that shows the state of the art in military robot technology:

They call him the Crusher

From the article:

The seven-ton Crusher is programmed to get itself from point A to point B without any instructions other than some basic GPS coordinates. It has no steering wheel, no seats for passengers, and — unless the remote control override is turned on — no human driver.

It maps its own route while it cruises, picking out the quickest and easiest path to complete the mission. For boulders and riverbeds more than two meters high, the machine plans easier paths around the obstacles. For ones less than two meters, it barrels over or through them, relying on its 30-inch ground clearance and six-wheel nonskid steering system.

This video shows you some of the vehicles capabilities:

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  1. February 27th, 2008 | 12:40 pm

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