DOGG
03-04-2006, 08:01 PM
NEW DELHI: Next month, weaponised robots will mount seek-and-destroy missions in Iraq for the US Army; another swarm of tracked robots has already begun scooping out insurgents in the West Bank for the Israeli Army. At home, a team led by DRDO scientist B Rajagopalan, has quietly built their very own Anti-terror Robot-Operated Vehicle (ROV-2).
Armed with sensors, cameras and mandibles—and soon with short-range weapons—these ROVs will form a force-multiplying base, fanning out into unpredictable threat scenarios, scanning for militants, defusing improvised bombs, planting booby traps. At the Research & Development Establishment (R&DE) in Pune, three years have passed since the ROV project began. Now, with two fully functional prototypes ready, the Army will shortly get a chance to put them to the test in urban and semi-urban settings.
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Armed with sensors, cameras and mandibles—and soon with short-range weapons—these ROVs will form a force-multiplying base, fanning out into unpredictable threat scenarios, scanning for militants, defusing improvised bombs, planting booby traps. At the Research & Development Establishment (R&DE) in Pune, three years have passed since the ROV project began. Now, with two fully functional prototypes ready, the Army will shortly get a chance to put them to the test in urban and semi-urban settings.
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