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2009-09-18

Robots to help the soldier


It's one giant leap for robots on the battlefield.
In Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico has just released video of its jumping robot in action, showing the Precision Urban Hopper clearing a tall metal paling.
Funded by the Sarpa, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the autonomous robot is designed to decrease injury military casualties by providing reconnoitre.
The robot uses a powerful leg to help barricade itself over tall barriers and, once it's completed, the four-wheeled robots will be able to jump more than seven metres (25ft) into the air.
The Massachusetts-based company Boston Dynamics is under contract to build the leaping robot, which is set to be delivered in 2010.
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