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“ROBART III is a prototype platform designed in-house at SPAWAR. If it weren’t for the chain gun and missiles, he would be pretty cute.

Once he’s ready for battle he’ll almost certainly don an evil-looking suit of armor. ROBART’s sensor array consists of a multitude of cameras, SICK LIDAR (like radar, but with lasers), ultrasonic transducers (gold spots), passive IR (infrared radiation) detectors and more.

The weapons are planned to work in unison with a special rifle that would automatically target where a soldier points his weapon.”

Yes, let’s give the robots guns…