Some soldiers may soon be taken out of harm’s way on the battlefield as robots designed by a University research team could explore and perform reconnaissance in hostile terrain.
Edwin Olson, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, and his team have been selected as finalists in the 2010 Multi Autonomous Ground-Robotic International Challenge (MAGIC) — a competition jointly sponsored by the United States Department of Defense and the Australian Department of Defense Science and Technology Organization.
“The goal of MAGIC is to foster technologies that will allow robots to autonomously help in war zones. So things like doing reconnaissance missions and exploration and finding bad guys and identifying bombs and things like that,” Olson said.
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